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No, he's not. Even if an antiviral like remdesivir would cure SARS-CoV-2, there's zero chance of it being produced in enough volume fast enough to keep everyone from dying, or even to treat a significant number of patients.

At best, antivirals will keep some of the worst infected patients from dying. The real problem is that there's no vaccine, and not likely to be one for a year or more. That's both because they take time to produce and because this particular type of virus is "good" at making the human immune system "forget" it.




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