COVID-19 may affect patient response to medicines

One of the lesser known yet critical issues arising from the disease is its potential effect on drug response and the risk of adverse drug effects.

Health-care providers need to think about how COVID-19 might affect how medications work and how they might cause side effects. They can do this by adjusting medication doses and watching out for any interactions between medications, especially for people who are taking multiple drugs, writes Chukwunonso Nwabufo.Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY CHUKWUNONSO NWABUFO

May 29, 2023

TORONTO—The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world as we know it, and its impact on the health-care system has been particularly profound. One of the lesser-known yet critical issues arising from the disease is its potential effect on drug response and the risk of...

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