Antibiotics aren't actually useful against viruses. We are currently in roughly the place with antiviral drugs that we were a century ago with antibiotics: the

Antibiotics aren't actually useful against viruses. We are currently in roughly the place with antiviral drugs that we were a century ago with antibiotics: the first clinical and theoretical hints are there, and a few things have been tested and found to work in isolated cases, but there simply is no systematic, industrial-scale way to pump out (antiviral) pills or syrups that can be thrown at whatever new (viral) pathogen comes out of the wilderness this year.