Individual risk management strategy and potential therapeutic options for the COVID-19 pandemic

Highlights

• A significant amount of the world's population will contract COVID-19 infection.
• Individual risk assessment and management strategies are crucial.
• Metabolic status determines the clinical severity of COVID-19, from asymptomatic to death.
• Important factors include diet, nutrition, age, sex, health, lifestyle, and environment.

Abstract

It is an ugly fact that a significant amount of the world's population will contract SARS-CoV infection with the current spreading. While specific treatment is not yet coming soon, individual risk assessment and management strategies are crucial. The individual preventive and protective measures drive the personal risk of getting the disease. Among the virus-contracted hosts, their different metabolic status, as determined by their diet, nutrition, age, sex, medical conditions, lifestyle, and environmental factors, govern the personal fate toward different clinical severity of COVID-19, from asymptomatic, mild, moderate, to death. The careful individual assessment for the possible dietary, nutritional, medical, lifestyle, and environmental risks, together with the proper relevant risk management strategies, is the sensible way to deal with the pandemic of SARS-CoV-II.

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