Treatment
Currently, no medication is recommended to treat <abbr title="coronavirus disease 2019" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; cursor: help;">COVID-19</abbr>, and no ***CURE*** is available. Antibiotics aren't effective against viral infections such as <abbr title="coronavirus disease 2019" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; cursor: help;">COVID-19</abbr>. Researchers are testing a variety of possible treatments.
The <abbr title="U.S. Food and Drug Administration" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; cursor: help;">FDA</abbr> has granted emergency use authorization for the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat severe COVID-19. The U.S. National Institutes of Health recently recommended the corticosteroid dexamethasone for people with severe <abbr title="coronavirus disease 2019" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; cursor: help;">COVID-19</abbr> who require supplemental oxygen or mechanical ventilation.