Traditional Chinese Medicine and COVID-19 |Biomedgrid

As of August 5, 2021, WHO's official website statistics show that the cumulative number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide has exceeded 200 million. Although countries around the world are actively preventing its spread and make great efforts to treat patients with new coronary pneumonia, more than 4 million deaths have occurred. The pathogen responsible for COVID-19 is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1]. Studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 is a positive RNA virus with a wide natural host range, which could affect multiple system systemic functions in the human body [2]. Existing data have shown that COVID-19 is mainly manifested by fever, dry cough, as well as fatigue, etc. Subsequently, most severe patients developed dyspnea after 1 week, which rapidly progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, refractory metabolic acidosis, and multiple organ failure [1,2].