Repurposing current therapeutics for treating COVID-19: A vital role of prescription records data mining.

ABSTRACT: Since its outbreak in late 2019, the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic already infected over 3.7 million people and claimed more than 250,000 lives globally. At least 1 year may take for an approved vaccine to be in place, and meanwhile millions more could be infected, some with fatal outcome. Over thousand clinical trials with COVID-19 patients are already listed in ClinicalTrials.com, some of them for assessing the utility of therapeutics approved for other conditions. However, clinical trials take many months, and are typically done with small cohorts. A much faster and by far more efficient method for rapidly identifying approved therapeutics that can be repurposed for treating COVID-19 patients is data mining their past and current electronic health and prescription records for identifying drugs th

SUBMITTER: Gurwitz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7276810 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature