The Long View on COVID-19 Theranostics and Oral Antivirals: Living with Endemic Disease and Lessons from Molnupiravir.

The long view on living with COVID-19 as an endemic disease calls for expanding the planetary health intervention toolbox. We will need a battery of vaccines, small molecule oral antiviral drugs, and biomarkers to forecast antiviral drug efficacy and safety. In this context, theranostics refers to fusion of therapeutics and diagnostics.