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One universal antiviral to rule them all?

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331 points breve | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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ggm ◴[26 Aug 25 21:46 UTC] No.45032720[source]▶
Persisting inflammation is not kind to bodies. All kinds of things could go wrong, and longterm consequences are easy to hypothesise.

Not saying this isn't worth researching but I'd expect big question marks around risk/reward.

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1. GTP ◴[26 Aug 25 22:16 UTC] No.45033037[source]▶
It seems to me that the point is to induce the inflammation only when someone is exposed to a virus or developed a viral infection, not to have a persisting one. Just like you take antibiotics if you get a bacterial infection, but only for the time needed to treat the infection. You don't take antibiotics every day "just in case".