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pasquinelli on March 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator

If it helps, malaria is caused by a single celled parasite that isn't a bacterium. Though i don't know why that would help.

Choloroquine is also used for autoimmune disease, which also doesn't make sense. Of course none of any of this makes sense to me because i don't know anything about it.

easymodex on March 10, 2020 [–]

From what i understand, one of the ways COVID-19 kills is by triggering an extreme autoimmune reaction which attacks the lungs (see: Cytokine storm).

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