It would serve as a good test of the efficacy of the prophylactics as well. For some reason, the CDC and leftist politicians do not seem to want to know if the prophylactics work.
Oh, there's a paper from the 80's the NIH has that Fauci had access to containing a study of Quinine based treatments against SARS-1, and the astounding mitigation of the disease. The way it was described as a 'family' of illnesses, it seemed more than highly probable they would work against another CoVID member of the family. FR posted within last couple of weeks.