COVID-19 & US healthcare system

[Labster]

Oh, and "...something we understand and that is inexpensive to manufacture."

Oh boy oh boy.  My dude.  You just said the magic words.

Remdesivir seems to be more likely to work on this virus.  It's an analogue of adenosine, one of the four building blocks of RNA, which can cause the viral RNA to break apart if substituted in.  But gosh is it hard to make.  See: OMG! We Made One Gram of Remdesivir!