SARS-CoV-2 epidemics raises a considerable issue of public health at the planetary scale.
There is a pressing urgency to find treatments based upon currently available scientific …

There is an urgent need to address the devastating pandemic, COVID‐19, caused by SARS‐
CoV‐2. The efforts to understand the details of this disease in hope of providing effective …

We have read with great interest the paper by Leung et al.[1] published in the European
Respiratory Journal, the correspondence by Russo et al.[2], and also the subsequent …

As of 20 April, almost 1.7 million people globally have been diagnosed with Corona Virus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a pandemic that has evolved from the emergence of a new …

In the absence of treatment or a vaccine, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic challenges the medical
community to identify novel containment strategies. Changeux et al. 1 have proposed the …

SARS-CoV-2 infection was announced as a pandemic in March 2020. Since then, several
scientists have focused on the low prevalence of smokers among hospitalized COVID-19 …

While SARS-CoV-2 uses angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as the receptor for cell
entry, it is important to examine other potential interactions between the virus and other cell …

Statistical surveys of COVID-19 patients indicate, against all common logic, that people who
smoke are less prone to the infection and/or exhibit less severe respiratory symptoms than …

The recent emergence of COVID‐19 has resulted in a worldwide crisis, with large
populations locked down and transportation links severed. While approximately 80% of …

A novel coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) is a potential cause of acute respiratory infection called coronavirus disease 2019 …