Eight months after the new coronavirus will be identified In the Chinese city of Wuhan, there is still no effective treatment against the disease that has already killed almost a million of people in the world, according to the most conservative death toll. There is no silver bullet against the virus nor is it expected to appear in the short term. “We are not too optimistic. Until now there is no curative drug for a respiratory viral disease. There is no curative treatment for the flu or the common cold adenovirus. There are no precedents. It seems unlikely that in the near future we will have a curative drug for this disease,” says the doctor. Ricardo Gomez Huelgas, president of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI).
