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No! clearly unnecessary!Actually it is quite easy for well equipped and experienced virologists to assess the effectiveness or otherwise of treatments for common colds by studying the expression of symptoms and production of viral particles or components. The methods were worked out years ago at the common cold research unit on the outskirts of Salisbury. Spoiler alert - there are no cures for the common cold, but the director had this to say in 1992 when the unit was closed:
It is probably too much to hope for a~ antiviral that will attack all viruses, but a programme to search for an anticoronavirus drug might be well worth undertaking. Such a search might become more rational than in the past. Perhaps a specific binding site might be found in an essential virus protein, just as had been done for rhinoviruses.
Prescient?