It looks like this isn't going away any time soon. Good ideas may not make a difference in the short term (though with medications already approved for other uses, maybe this one will), but they might reduce the burden of this disease in the medium-long term.

As for the testing, I would be thrilled if there were home covid-19 tests that were as fast and reliable as home pregnancy tests. Spit/pee/whatever on a stick, wait a couple of minutes, get a result. But I don't think anyone is working on something like this, and I suspect it's not as easy as it sounds.