In the last abundant year, doctors and researchers have tested drugs and tried different therapeutic plans, all with the aim of identifying a therapy that could promote the recovery of patients and avoid the most serious complications of the New Coronavirus infection.
It is fair to point out that, fortunately, most people with COVID-19 do not need hospital treatment and are able to overcome the infection with home treatments adopted even during the most classic episodes of flu or flu-like.
However, there is unfortunately a portion of individuals who, thanks to advanced age, clinical history and genetic and metabolic factors, develop a form of COVID-19 that requires more specific treatments and even hospitalization.
This article aims to clarify, as far as possible, home and hospital treatments for COVID-19, taking into account the fact that information relating to some therapies is constantly evolving.
The problem of precisely defining a therapeutic plan against SARS-CoV-2 infection arises from the still incomplete knowledge of the aforementioned virus and its weak points.
To learn more: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: how to recognize the first symptoms (fever, cough, runny nose, etc.), but does not suffer from pneumonia or hypoxia.
COVID-19 is usually mild in people who are healthy and not particularly elderly; However, it should be noted that this is not an absolute rule: in fact, just as there are elderly or not in perfect health individuals who develop a mild form of COVID-19, so there are also non-elderly and healthy adults who contract a severe infectious form and such as to require hospitalization.
Both the WHO (World Health Organization) and i National Institutes of Health (NIH) Americans have drawn up a COVID-19 severity classification based on symptoms and complications.
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