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  1. antivirals

    Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used for treating viral infections. Most antivirals target specific viruses, while a broad-spectrum antiviral is effective against a wide range of viruses. Antiviral drugs are one class of antimicrobials, a larger group which also includes antibiotic (also termed antibacterial), antifungal and antiparasitic drugs, or antiviral drugs based on monoclonal antibodies. Most antivirals are considered relatively harmless to the host, and therefore can be used to treat infections. They should be distinguished from viricides, which are not medication but deactivate or destroy virus particles, either inside or outside the body. Natural viricides are produced by some plants such as eucalyptus and Australian tea trees.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of antivirals in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of antivirals in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of antivirals in a Sentence

  1. Tom Inglesby:

    The purpose of this program is to maximize and accelerate the delivery of antivirals to people who are at the greatest risk of severe Covid infection, and as part of that, we need to make sure we get treatment to people as quickly as possible after they test positive.

  2. Duane Gubler:

    Even though it's only partially effective, they'll have public health utility, in the next three to five years we'll see one or more antivirals come on as well.

  3. Paul Hunter:

    The concern for me remains our more vulnerable people, especially those who for medical reasons may not have responded as well to vaccine as we would have wished, there needs to be robust procedures in place to ensure infections in this group are diagnosed early and antivirals are provided within hours of any positive result.

  4. Celine Gounder:

    We've been mostly focused on monoclonal antibodies and to some degree, remdesivir and some of the other immunomodulators, but we really need to be thinking about other antivirals, here I am speaking as a member of Infectious Diseases Society of America -- the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Infectious Diseases Society of America still does not recommend the use of monoclonal antibodies, despite emergency use authorization being granted by the FDA.

  5. Rachel Cohen:

    We are concerned that that could potentially lead to a kind of therapeutic nationalism, what we're most concerned about, though, is that equitable access to antivirals may be particularly challenging in low - and middle-income countries.

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