- With cases of the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) climbing steeply everywhere from Lagos to Manhattan , overwhelming one hospital after another and pushing the global death toll past 17,000, evere acute respiratory syndrome the sprint to find treatments has dramatically accelerated. Drugs that stop the novel coronavirus, s 2 (SARS-CoV-2), could save the lives of severely ill patients, protect health care workers and others at high risk of infection, and reduce the time patients spend in hospital beds.
