A detailed overview of SARS-CoV-2 omicron: its sub-variants, mutations and pathophysiology, clinical characteristics, immunological landscape, immune escape, and …

S Chatterjee, M Bhattacharya, S Nag, K Dhama… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant concern for everyone. Recent data from
many worldwide reports suggest that most infections are caused by the Omicron variant and …

Monoclonal antibody therapies against SARS-CoV-2

D Focosi, S McConnell, A Casadevall… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 have been widely
used in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we review the properties of mAbs …

Nirmatrelvir use and severe Covid-19 outcomes during the Omicron surge

R Arbel, Y Wolff Sagy, M Hoshen, E Battat… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The oral protease inhibitor nirmatrelvir has shown substantial efficacy in high-
risk, unvaccinated patients infected with the B. 1.617. 2 (delta) variant of severe acute …

Real-world effectiveness of early molnupiravir or nirmatrelvir–ritonavir in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 without supplemental oxygen requirement on admission …

CKH Wong, ICH Au, KTK Lau, EHY Lau… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Data on the effectiveness of oral antivirals in patients with mild-to-moderate
COVID-19 are urgently needed. This retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate the …

[PDF][PDF] Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline, 13 January 2023

World Health Organization - 2023 - apps.who.int
As of December 2022, there have been over 642 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (10).
The pandemic has thus far claimed approximately 6.62 million lives (10). Vaccination is …

Omicron: what makes the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern so concerning?

C Jung, D Kmiec, L Koepke, F Zech, T Jacob… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Emerging strains of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the
causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, that show …

Nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir: first approval

YN Lamb - Drugs, 2022 - Springer
Nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir (Paxlovid™; Pfizer) is a co-packaged combination of nirmatrelvir
and ritonavir tablets, intended for co-administration and developed for the treatment and …

Nirmatrelvir-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants with high fitness in an infectious cell culture system

Y Zhou, KA Gammeltoft, LA Ryberg, LV Pham… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The oral protease inhibitor nirmatrelvir is of key importance for prevention of severe
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To facilitate resistance monitoring, we studied …

Therapeutics for COVID-19

SS Toussi, JL Hammond, BS Gerstenberger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments to prevent severe coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) illness were available within a year of the pandemic being declared but there …

A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19

A Agarwal, BJ Hunt, M Stegemann, B Rochwerg… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Updates This is the fourteenth version (thirteenth update) of the living guideline, replacing
earlier versions (available as data supplements). New recommendations will be published …