Abstract

 Affecting nearly 300,000 people around the world and claiming greater than 10,000 lives, the novel coronavirus-related respiratory illness has been declared a global pandemic and a public health emergency by the WHO [1]. The roots of this problem can be traced into early December of 2019, when the Index cases of what were investigated as ‘pneumonia of unknown origin’ were reported in Wuhan, the epicenter of the disease in China.

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Citation

Citation: Salim Surani., et al. “The Rationale for the Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in COVID-19: Where Hope Meets Skepticism!". Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 4.5 (2020): 27-28.

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Copyright: © 2020 Salim Surani., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.