Pre-Vaccine Treatments & Drugs

With no standard approved long COVID therapies, research turns to a proven COVID drug and other "low-risk, high-reward" help.

Doctors used to swear by the slow recovery period known as convalescence. Some experts say embracing it again could offer benefits for an array of long-term illnesses and injuries.

In mid-February 2020, during the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, Liu Lihong, a slight man with a wispy beard, made his way into Hankou Hospital

"Another example of Big Pharma reaping billions from public investment into research by charging extortionate, rip-off prices for lifesaving Covid drugs."

The public-health emergency expired May 11. But the U.S. remains awash in tragedies linked to doctors who prescribed dubious treatments.

Dhruv Khullar writes about the development of the antiviral pills molnupiravir and Paxlovid and the effect that they could have worldwide against the coronavirus pandemic.

At least three promising antivirals that could prevent symptoms and limit transmission of Covid-19 are in clinical trials.

For a year, researchers have been studying and arguing over vitamin D's potential for helping protect against or treat COVID-19. The evidence is still not conclusive.

What science says about vitamins and supplements for the coronavirus

Vitamin pills will be posted to 5,000 UK residents to see if they help boost immunity.

According to Yu Yanhong, 91.5% of COVID-19 patients in China have been treated with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) decoctions.

Chinese herbal medicine is proven effective for COVID-19 (coronavirus).

Claims that a Chinese herbal remedy can prevent COVID-19 is “inappropriate and illegal,” said the national president of the Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Canada (CMAAC).

Forget kombucha and trendy vitamin supplements – they are nothing more than magic potions for the modern age.

We already have medicines for treating cytokine storm syndromes, the immune response that’s killing many who die of Covid-19.

Herbal remedies pose both direct and indirect risks to patients, Dr. Edzard Ernst of the United Kingdom’s University of Exeter.

Medical experts are warning Canadians not to believe the hype after a hidden camera investigation revealed a Winnipeg acupuncturist was selling an herbal tea that purports to prevent COVID-19. Health Canada has not approved any product to prevent, treat or cure the illness.