Antiviral drugs could help us fight the new coronavirus, but we don’t currently have a highly potent and effective antiviral that cures COVID-19. Why not? We called a few virologists to find out.


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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Andrew Sobey
Elaine Seward

Writer/Host:
George Zaidan

Scientific consultants:
Rebecca Dutch, PhD
Vincent Racaniello, PhD
Paul Offit, PhD
Lelia Duman, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD

Special Thanks:
Lisa Jarvis
Julia Price Radice

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Sources:
All interventional SARS-CoV-2 trials registered on clinicaltrials.gov
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/result...

Antivirals Lecture
   • Virology Lectures 2019 #20: Antivirals  

Pulmonary critical care series on COVID treatment
https://pulmccm.org/review-articles/a...
https://pulmccm.org/review-articles/a...

Coronavirus therapeutics
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-...

Remdesivir
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/he...