why do antiviral drugs not work in the same broad capacity as antibiotic drugs?

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Antibiotic drugs treat a large degree of bacterial infections, but viral infections seem to be trickier to develop medicinal treatment for. Why?

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Bacteria are vulnerable in three different ways and each of the three groups of antibiotics targets one of those vulnerable spots penicillins, macrolides and fluoroquinolones https://youtu.be/04brjRdc02w since viruses are not actually cells they don’t have these key weak spots to target so the antiviral drugs have to be more targeted at the specific virus in order to somehow disable it.

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