Low-dose radiation therapy: could it be a game-changer for COVID-19?

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At the beginning of December 2019, the first cases of a new acute respiratory syndrome, of extraordinary contagiousness, began to be described in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, in central China. New virus, a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) thus far unknown in the human species, was identified as the causative agent. Since then, humanity has witnessed a rapid spread of this RNA virus throughout the world, being recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. As of 12th April 2020, over 1 614,951 cases and nearly 100,000 deaths are reported worldwide [1]. The consequences of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been quickly noticed, being Spain is one of the countries where the infection has shown the most virulence, putting our national health care system at an imaginable stress and with evident risk of collapse in case of uncontrolled outbreaks. …