Why new COVID-19 treatments have been so slow to develop [National Geographic]

National Geographic quotes Thomas Russo, chief of infectious diseases in the Department of Medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, in a story titled, "Why new COVID-19 treatments have been so slow to develop." “What people have to realize is that things often could look good at these earliest stages,” Russo explains, “and then they could flop in the very last lap.” Russo also emphasizes the importance of vaccines, noting that, "It’s always better to prevent a disease than to try to treat a disease."