Investigational Therapeutics for Patients with COVID-19

The range of medical therapeutics to treat corona virus condition 2019 (COVID-19) is growing and evolving fast, including both medicinals approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and medicinals made available under FDA emergency use authorization (EUA). CDC dynamically encourages clinicians, cases and their counselors, and health system directors to regularly consult the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines external icon published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The treatment and management recommendations in these guidelines are grounded on scientific proof and expert opinion and are much modernized. Current clinical management of COVID-19 consists of infection forestallment and control measures and supporting care, including supplemental oxygen and mechanical ventilatory support when indicated. FDA has approved one medicinal, remdesivir (Veklury), for the treatment of COVID-19 in certain situations