Editorial: A Compendium of Recent Research on Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Covid-19

Abstract

We have been dealing with an unprecedented global health crisis for nearly 2 years now. This started after an outbreak of atypical pneumonia of unknown etiology that was described in late December 2019 in China’s Wuhan Province, the etiologic agent causing this pneumonia episode was identified as a novel coronavirus named “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2” (SARS-CoV-2)" (Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, 2020; Wu et al., 2020) and the disease was designated COronaVIrus Disease-2019 (COVID-19). The rapid expansion of COVID-19 cases in number and geographic distribution led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global health emergency. The control of the disease was challenged by the lack of antiviral treatment and vaccines, by asymptomatic carriers and the rapid increase in infections worldwide; COVID-19 was officially classified and declared by WHO as a pandemic on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020).