Theranostics for COVID-19 Antiviral Drugs: Prospects and Challenges for Worldwide Precision/Personalized Medicine.

OMICS

Departamento de Patologia, Genética e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e Naturais, Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, Brazil.

Published: January 2023

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a systemic disease that impacts multiple organ systems with a complex clinical presentation and outcomes that can vary from person to person and between populations. To optimize COVID-19 treatment outcomes, and in light of the availability of antiviral drugs, there is a need for greater attention to the field of theranostics, the fusion of therapeutics and diagnostics. Theranostics tests would be invaluable, we suggest in this expert review, so as to optimize the efficacy and safety of current and future antiviral drugs against COVID-19. Theranostics would also assist in the design and implementation of clinical trials with antiviral drug candidates. We discuss here theranostics considering drugs such as remdesivir, Paxlovid™, and molnupiravir. All in all, we underscore that theranostics as a concept and practice is essential for efficient and safe health interventions against COVID-19 and other ecological crises in the 21st century.

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