Covid-19, health authorities must continue to push for new treatments and measures to stop the coronavirus from spreading, said Robert “Chip" Schooley, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, who is studying more potent versions of an existing antiviral.“Optimally, we’d have an oral antiviral drug you can give to more people earlier in the course of the illness," Schooley said.
Vaccines might not be 100% effective, “which is better than nothing, but we’re still going to have to rely on drugs and behavioral modifications for a long time to come."Blockbuster studies published by the journal Science on Thursday showed about 14% of critical Covid-19 patients have impaired levels of a substance called interferon that.