New Hopes for Drugs against COVID-19 Come from the Sea

摘要

The latest chapter of the historic battle of humans against pathogenic microbes is the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for COVID-19, a respiratory disease declared a global pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020. Less than one year later, at the beginning of February 2021, nearly 104 million cases and 2.3 million deaths have been reported worldwide [1], but the effects on the global economy (and on our psychological wellbeing) will probably last for years.