Washington Post editorial: We need therapeutic dru

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Finally, and most importantly, we need greater focus on developing scalable treatments to prevent severe covid-19, shorten the duration of the disease and reduce deaths. At every turn, we have underestimated this virus. The current vaccines are effective — for now. But we should not assume that will remain the case as the virus mutates.

Plus, having vaccines is not a silver bullet, as we’ve already seen. It will take months to vaccinate every adult in the United States — much less globally — who wants to be vaccinated, and we must expect significant pockets of people to go unvaccinated and remain susceptible to serious infection. Trials for children — who can become seriously ill with covid-19, although it’s rare — have also not been completed. And if an updated vaccine booster becomes necessary to tackle these new variants, it will take yet more time for it to reach people.

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