Mortality is going to be dramatically reduced once nearly everyone has T-cells+B-cells that recognize the virus. If everyone got vaccinated we'd be out of the

Mortality is going to be dramatically reduced once nearly everyone has T-cells+B-cells that recognize the virus. If everyone got vaccinated we'd be out of the pandemic phase and into the endemic phase with a virus that looked more like just a flu/cold. Vaccines are a 10x or 20x improvement in death and hospitalization rates. That's just a fact. All these antivirals won't have that kind of impact and are closing the barn doors after the horse has escaped. Which is not to say we don't research both, but vaccination is the simple easy and effective answer. There's a considerable technological fetish with antivirals while boring vaccines are now treated with skepticism, which is backwards. Antivirals should be used after vaccines have failed in vulnerable populations, the major weapon against viruses is vaccines, and they work.