There's lots of work on anti-virals and other drugs, but unless you happen to hit a pre-approved drug showing both efficacy and safety will take so long that it

There's lots of work on anti-virals and other drugs, but unless you happen to hit a pre-approved drug showing both efficacy and safety will take so long that it probably won't matter until the next epidemic. Drug treatments are much harder to develop without significant side-effects and also likely less effective than a well targeted vaccine. Watch around 1hr into this TWiV, if you're interested in what targets there are for anti-virals, who's working on them, and why they're hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dL-ll8dSmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dL-ll8dSmY