A REVIEW ON MEDICINES, VACCINES AND FUTURE PROSPECTIVES FOR THE TREATMENT OF COVID DISEASE
Prashanth M. E.*, Dr. Basavaraj H., Dr. Mallappa Shalavadi and Leela J.
ABSTRACT
The Covid pandemic caused a serious issue all over the world in the last few years affecting health, economy and progress of all the countries and it was necessary to develop a medicine against the virus with immediate effect. Initially, the disease was treated by available drugs which targeted different structures of virus inhibiting their normal phenomenon for binding, release, replication of viral particles in host cells. However, these drugs did not guarantee complete cure of Covid disease. Like all other virus there was development of Vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 from the pharma giants all over the world. The vaccines were developed based on different vectors but all the vaccines had its own side effects with range of effectiveness among different populations. Few other pharma companies are in search of development of vaccines which can be given by different routes other than intramuscular to ease the vaccine intake by the patients. This article briefs out the different vaccines, their mechanism, effectiveness and future of vaccines against covid disease.
Keywords: SARS-CoV-2, Covid, Vaccines, Covaxin. Covishield, Sputnik, ZyCoV-D.
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