Dr Lefteris Teperikidis - freelance medical writer at Kolabtree explores the research for using Ibuprofen to treat the effects of Covid-19 .
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Since the original Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus (CoV) 2 outbreak in Wuhan, China last December, a large body of evidence on Covid-19 has been published. However, the urgent need for scientific information relating to the virus has led to a lot of the usual safeguards of literature reporting, such as the peer-review process, being bypassed on several occasions.
As a result, an unprecedented number of publications have emerged, leading to a vast amount of available information. In fact, a simple Pubmed search using the term “Covid”, including only results from 1 December 2019 up to 16 April 2020, yielded an astonishing 4,090 reports. While some of these articles are reports on actual clinical data related to Covid-19, there are also a large number of editorials and expert opinions on various different topics.