Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Strategies and the Potential Role of miRNA in the Assessment of COVID-19 Morbidity, Recurrence, and Therapy
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors have provided a review about anti-SARS-CoV-2 strategies and the potential role of miRNA 2 in the assessment of COVID-19 morbidity, recurrence, and 3 therapy.
The work is very well organized, informative, and with outstanding figures
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Reviewer 2 Report
Overview and general recommendation:
In this review the authors have listed hundreds of miRNAs that related to COVID-19, aim to find effective biomarker for clinical, however, there is no one reference on describing the sensitivity and specificity of miRNAs in plasma with COVID-19 patients. It is not good enough to discuss the section of potential therapeutic strategies towards COVID-19 from line 146 of Page 4 to line 257 of Page 6. We believe that the use of dexamethasone resulted in lower 28-day mortality among those who were receiving either invasive mechanical ventilation or oxygen alone in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 according to the reference (N Engl J Med 2021; 384:693-704. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2021436). Thus, this review should be considered to add more references about some drugs on mortality in COVID-19 patients. Besides, this review should list 2-3 specific miRNAs that can help diagnose and prognosis with COVID-19 patients in parts of both Abstract and conclusion.
2.1. Major comments:
1. In 5.5.1. Applied miRNAs therapies part (line 600 to line 617 of Page 15), there is no reference or discussion on miRNAs that related to COVID-19 disease but only H1N1 flu infection and HCV infection. Suggest you delete these data on this issue.
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Reviewer 3 Report
Article is an exhaustive review of Sars-Cov2 pathology and possible therapeutic targets. Except for some minor corrections, it is acceptable for publication
- On pg2, line 47 , authors mention "until now (may 2021),no effective therapies have been proven". In my opinion the FDA has approved remdesevir and REGN-COV2 as therapies
- Pg4, line 165; should read "...in several ongoing clinical trials is still being tested"
- Pg6, line 275 and pg7 line 280: The wording completely changes the meaning. The current vaccines are effective against the new strains just not as much. The sentence should read " The antibodies produced by people vaccinated with Pfizer were about 80% effective against some mutations in B.1.617." Similarly line 280 should read "...vaccine, they found that the antibodies were about 67% effective against variant B.1.617"
- Pg 14, line 582: "First" is misspelled.
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