An orally-available monovalent SMAC mimetic compound as a broad-spectrum antiviral

Dear Editor, The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic caused great global morbidity and mortality concur-rent with astronomical socioeconomic damages and losses.Until now,the culpable pathogen,SARS-CoV-2,has infected over 6 hundred million people resulting in more than 6 million deaths worldwide(WHO SARS-CoV-2 cases).