Table 1.

Summary of antiviral treatment strategies with existing clinical data.

Treatment	Mechanism Target	Clinical benefit?	Mortality decrease?
Remdesivir	RNA-dependent RNA polymerase	✓	✓/Mixed
Favipiravir	RNA-dependent RNA polymerase	✓	X
Lopinavir/Ritonavir	Viral protease	✓	X
Peginterferon λ-1a	General viral replication, cell activity	Mixed	X

✓ - The drug produced the respective column’s effect. X - The drug failed to produce the respective column’s effect. Mixed - The drug produced negative and positive outcomes or only produced positive outcomes in some trials. * - Clinical trials of this drug either failed to exceed 100 participants or lacked any blinding.