The year two thousand and t was an ominous one for emerging infectious diseases. Many experts feared they were watching the start of a glob pandemic. The scientific community really should have developed universal anti virals against tars, says robert webster,. Then we would have had something in the stock pile for the emergence of covid he says. Covid is caused by sars, cove too, a close relative of the virus responsible for sars. But with the pharmaseutical industry historically focused on just a few particular virises, h i v and hepotitis c, mostly, finding agents to fight known and imagined threats remains at all order.