You are developing a anti-viral treatment for SARS-CoV-2. You decide to have your product target the replication cycle. What step would you target? Why would you target this step? HOW wold you target this step?

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Viral Replication

The virus is acellular and considered non-living outside the host cell. The replication of the virus occurs only inside the living cells. Only a few genes are present in the smallest virus, whereas many genes are present in the largest virus. These genes encode specific viral proteins.