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Anti-virals aren't like anti-biotics, we don't have great general purpose antivirals. Adamantine, interferons, etc are used generally, but their efficacy is pretty poor.

That's why hepatitis C was so difficult to treat. It required a very specific molecule to inhibit an enzyme specific to hepatitis C.



The situation with general purpose antivirals appears to be about to change, though: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/04/mo...




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