The True Challenges of the Covid-19 Epidemics: The Need for Essential Levels of Care for All

摘要

In the last decades, biomedical research and fundingsupporting it have given a relevant impulse to developing socalled “Personalized Medicine” (PM) and “precision medicine”(the latter definition with emphasis on the usefulness ofdividing patients into target groups). This perspective hasincreased knowledge on how we can predict diseasesusceptibility and prognosis in a person or how we can define atailor-made treatment on specific individual immune-genomiccharacteristics and disease and thus improve the health of sucha person [1].