https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2223-y
While most of the focus is currently on finding a vaccine for COVID-19 to prevent new infections, there is also a lot fo work being done to discover and create drugs that can treat it. If it truly is going to become endemic, and it is going to continue mutating, there needs to be some sort of treatment for it. This article, albeit brief, describes how they are discovering lead compounds to inhibit the virus’s main protease, Mpro.