Covid-19: pharmacotherapeutic insights on various curative approaches in terms of vulnerability, comorbidities, and vaccination

Inflammopharmacology. 2022 Feb;30(1):1-21. doi: 10.1007/s10787-021-00904-w. Epub 2022 Jan 3.

Abstract

A novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), was discovered in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and the world has suffered from a pandemic. As of 22nd March 2020, at least 185 countries worldwide had been affected by COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2, leading to COVID-19 pneumonia, infects cells through ACE-2 receptors. The disease has different clinical signs and symptoms, including chills, high fever, dyspnea, and cough. Other symptoms including haemoptysis, myalgia, diarrhoea, expectoration, and fatigue may also occur. The rapid rise in confirmation cases is severe in preventing and controlling COVID-19. In this review, the article will explore and evaluate the insights into how COVID influences patients with other comorbid conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, and how conditions Urolithiasis, anosmia, and anuria may develop after infection. The virus mutates and the variants are now prevalent in the present scenario where the world stands in eradicating the pandemic by looking into the development of vaccines by several countries and how the vaccination can temporarily help prevent COVID spread.

Keywords: Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2); Cardiovascular disease (CVD); Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Hypertension (HTN); Renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS); Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2); World Health Organization (WHO).

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 Drug Treatment*
  • Humans
  • Pandemics / prevention & control
  • Renin-Angiotensin System
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Vaccination