Coronavirus: two treatment experimental. And the wait for the vaccine

AGAINST the new Coronavirus SarsCoV2 , at present there are no specific therapies, but only care experimental. And, while there has been an increase in cases in the world, Italy included, is the race for the development of a vaccine. At the moment there are, therefore, targeted treatment: the disease it treats as cases of the flu. In more severe cases, patients are practiced the mechanical support of breathing. On the basis of the available data, the world health Organization (Who) has suggested that antiviral therapy experimental, currently used at the national Institute for infectious diseases Spallanzani in Rome.

This therapy is based on two medications: lopinavir/ritonavir, an antiviral used for HIV infection and who show an antiviral activity on coronavirus, and the remdesivir, an antiviral already used for the disease from the Ebola Virus and potentially active against the infection by the new coronavirus. These medicines are also been used to treat the two spouses of chinese (of which man is a result, in the past few days in the negative and therefore healing), and the Italian researcher, he also healed, admitted to Spallanzani.