Abstract
I used to begin my microbiology lecture series with a slogan "microbes rule the world". And I continued by reminding the students that microbes, in fact, have been on earth billions of years before man and that they most probably stay here after mankind has been extinguished. The current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic makes this statement actual but also a bit creepy.
Highlights
Thanks to the previous coronavirus epidemics, SARS in 2002–2003 and MERS in 2012, drug development did not start from zero but rather the “old” molecules were taken from the files and are being tested and further modified in order to combat the current disease COVID-19
The pandemic soon caused a dramatic change in everyday life, including lockdown of many countries and cancellation of congresses, conventions and meetings and an almost total silence in international flight traffic
Medical and dental associations soon gave their orders and recommendations how and which patients must be treated in spite of the public restrictions
Summary
I used to begin my microbiology lecture series with a slogan “microbes rule the world.” And I continued by reminding the students that microbes, have been on earth billions of years before man and that they most probably stay here after mankind has been extinguished. When writing this in early May, intensive research on the coronavirus is conducted all over the world and first treatment studies with various drug combinations have been published (Ahn et al, 2020). Thanks to the previous coronavirus epidemics, SARS in 2002–2003 and MERS in 2012, drug development did not start from zero but rather the “old” molecules were taken from the files and are being tested and further modified in order to combat the current disease COVID-19. Our Chinese colleagues were the first to meticulously describe the onset and development of the new infection in the oral medicine perspective (Meng, Hua, & Bian, 2020).
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