Nevan Krogan – Professor and Director of Quantitave Biosciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco Here’s how researchers might find these coronavirus drugs. Why don’t we have drugs to treat COVID-19 and how long will it take to develop them? SARS-CoV-2 — the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 — is completely new and attacks cells in a novel way. Every virus is different and so are the drugs used to treat them. That’s why there wasn’t a drug ready to tackle the new coronavirus that only emerged a few months ago.…
