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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: 0.204s | source
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giancarlostoro ◴[26 Aug 25 14:37 UTC] No.45027158[source]▶
Wont viruses just adapt and now we've got worse viruses as a result? Isn't this kind of why doctors don't like to prescribe antibiotics too often, because they become ineffective in the long run.

I'm genuinely asking, I'm a simple software dev not a doctor.

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1. cwmma ◴[27 Aug 25 12:13 UTC] No.45038594[source]▶
Probably, currently it's just 15 people that have it, but if you started giving it to more people there would be incredible advantages to any virus that could adapt and viruses mutate fast.