Anti viral treatments are really hard to come across, it’s not like the world hasn’t been testing everything we could think of to use as a treatment, it’s just

Anti viral treatments are really hard to come across, it’s not like the world hasn’t been testing everything we could think of to use as a treatment, it’s just that the vast majority of chemicals that we know of or think might work don’t. Truly effective medicines are rare, finding them quickly is rarer still. Vaccines are also vastly cheaper as an intervention that treatments, currently Phizer is selling one dose for $19.50, for remdesivir it’s more like $500 for one dose and one patient needs about 6 doses for a full course of treatment. So the economic incentives are very much in favor of coming up with new treatments, rather than vaccines. It’s just really hard to do.