Why can’t people take antivirals the way we take antibiotics? Why not prescribe antivirals for things like the common cold?

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Why can’t people take antivirals the way we take antibiotics? Why not prescribe antivirals for things like the common cold?

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Antivirals need to be very specific for the virus so most of the time they would be useless. Antibiotics are more broad spectrum and more useful against most bacteria

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