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...According to early research, an old malaria drug called chloroquine might also work for the new.
...Could a decades-old malaria drug work to treat COVID-19? Elon Musk seems to think so, recently tweeting that it "Might be worth considering chloroquine" for COVID-19.
...Laboratory studies show chloroquine is effective at preventing as well as treating the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, a close cousin of COVID-19.
...Given chloroquine's effectiveness in treating SARS, scientists have investigated if it will be an effective treatment against the new coronavirus responsible for COVID-19.
..."The theory of the experiment with primate cells was that chloroquine could be for preventing viral infection or as a treatment for viral infection after it had occurred. In vitro in these primate cells, there was evidence that viral particles were significantly reduced when chloroquine was used."
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