Malaria drugs aren't the only ones on the shelf that might help coronavirus patients
by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Apr 03, 2020
3 minutes
When a pandemic springs up as fast as the one sparked by the novel coronavirus, doctors must rummage around in their medicine cabinets for drugs that are already available and might be repurposed to treat a wholly new disease.
Treating patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 is essentially a preventive mission: The principal aim is to stop the disease from progressing to a severe stage that would typically require mechanical ventilation.
But it's hard to slow or disrupt the progress of an infection when you have only begun to see
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