Developing potent antivirals targeting COVID-19 'direction of the future,' Fauci says

Amid emerging coronavirus variants, the “direction of the future” will be in developing “potent antivirals” that directly act on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday. Fauci, who was partaking in the White House’s COVID-19 briefing, said the nation would need to approach therapeutics similar to the “highly successful drug development program for HIV as well as Hepatitis C.”