Publication Name	World Journal of Meta-Analysis
Manuscript ID	56768
Country	Italy

Category	Infectious Diseases
Manuscript Type	Field of Vision
Article Title	COVID-19: Off-label therapies based on mechanism of action while waiting for evidence-based medicine recommendations
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Matteo Scotto Di Vetta, Marco Morrone and Serafino Fazio
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Serafino Fazio, MD, Adjunct Professor, Associate Specialist, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular and Immunologic Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Via S. Pansini 5, Napoli 80100, Italy. sefazio@libero.it
Key Words	COVID-19; Evidence based medicine; Hydroxycloroquine; Azithromycine; Indomethacine; Doxycycline
Core Tip	The world pandemia due to coronavirus disease 2019 has a high rate of disease trasmission that causes a critical hospitalization overload. Waiting for certainties by evidence based medicine, it is not ethics do not try off-label therapies with some well-known drugs which could have some efficacy based on their mechanisms of action.
Citation	Scotto di Vetta M, Morrone M, Fazio S. COVID-19: Off-label therapies based on mechanism of action while waiting for evidence-based medicine recommendations. World J Meta-Anal 2020; 8(3): 173-177

Received	2020-05-18 18:13
Peer-Review Started	2020-05-18 18:13
To Make the First Decision
Return for Revision	2020-06-08 07:33
Revised	2020-06-08 15:38
Second Decision	2020-06-28 10:23
Accepted by Journal Editor-in-Chief
Accepted by Company Editor-in-Chief	2020-06-28 23:12
Articles in Press	2020-06-28 23:12
Publication Fee Transferred
Edit the Manuscript by Language Editor	2020-06-29 21:15
Typeset the Manuscript	2020-07-06 01:39

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