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Yes actually. It would kill a lot of small cap biotech tech. Making drugs is cheap but finding them is one of the hardest and most expensive things in the world. It takes around 3 billion dollars to fund a new drug from start to finish and around 90% of phase 1 trials never make it to approval. It’s worse for certain diseases like Alzheimer’s 99.99% fail rate. Getting a working drug is about the same as winning the lotto because so much can go wrong

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Don't forget that viruses can adapt.  So even if a drug is found to treat a virus, the virus can mutate to become immune to the drug.  Then you have to research the new resilient mutated virus.  So a lot of the research also goes into figuring out how to combat a virus without causing it to mutate.

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