Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "It’s important to ‘lower false hopes’ over a coronavirus cure" video.

One possible issue with taking drugs as a protective antiviral, other than the risk of organ damage which is real, is fact that you may stop yourself from getting the virus until you run out of drugs, but then you still will not have any immunity to the virus. They should be also looking at if low doses can just hold the infection at a very low level so that a person can build up a natural immunity while not suffering from the sort of damage that a out of control infection can cause. In a way this also justifies the way that they are waiting to treat already ill people rather than making it widely available.
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