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Re:French researcher posts successful Covid-19 chloroquine d... by ck2 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @05:51PM (#22610865)
That's hydroxychloroquine right?

Same drug they use to treat lupus so it's well tested?

edit: oh wait, maybe not https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32150618

      Hydroxychloroquine was found to be more potent than chloroquine to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.
If so, goodrx shows it's $20, hopefully it will spare some deaths.

https://www.goodrx.com/hydroxychloroquine

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Re:French researcher posts successful Covid-19 chloroquine d... by the_watcher on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:01PM (#22610984)
Chloroquine is a common anti-malarial and can be purchased OTC in much of Latin America.
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Re:French researcher posts successful Covid-19 chloroquine d... by surewhynat on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:01PM (#22610981)
No, it is a relative to the drug. Although from what I understand is that they behave similarly. Someone posted a link to this useful video yesterday, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M

edit: typo

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