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Why making anti-viral drugs is so hard — and how COVID-19 could be great for the field

from National Post

Why making anti-viral drugs is so hard — and how COVID-19 could be great for the field National Post It was 1928 when Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming noticed an odd phenomenon: Mould that had formed accidentally in one of his petri dishes was stopping the growth of bacteria. Fleming had of course just discovered penicillin, and by the mid-1940s the world’s first antibiotic would be in mass production, launching an historic era when most bacterial infections became curable. As COVID-19 has made painfully clear, viral diseases are a rather different matter. READ MORE

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