"Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in the cause of the common cold"<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold</a>
Because there are a ton of viruses that cause it, there are a lot of things that look like colds but aren't, things that <i>could</i> kill a cold may be too high a risk since a cold is a relatively minor thing, etc. That said, there may (or may not) be broad-spectrum anti-virals on the way (1-2 decades)<p>This is trivially searchable on the web, btw, e.g., <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/you-cant-beat-the-common-cold-and-thats-a-fact/" rel="nofollow">https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/you-cant-beat-the-common-co...</a>.