On January 13, 2020, a paper was published online touting the creation of a possible therapy that could be used against all known strains of the flu. A week later, the first laboratory-confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 sparked the two-and-a-half-year COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Interestingly, before the virus temporarily halted their work, the international team of researchers for this flu paper also investigated treatments for the coronavirus.