why is it so hard to make a virus killing drug?

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why is it so hard to make a virus killing drug?

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We can do that it’s really simple. The unfortunate part is that it will also kill the patient. We don’t want that.

So we must make something that will kill the virus faster than the human. That’s how chemotherapy works, we are trying to kill the cancer faster than the procedure kills the patient.

Ideal drug would be harmless to humans, but that’s really hard as most things that kill virus kill us as well.