Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2020
Scientists identify 69 drugs to test against the coronavirus
23 March 2020 - Two dozen of the medicines are already under investigation. Also on the list: chloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria.
Some of the medications are already used to treat other diseases, and repurposing them to treat Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, may be faster than trying to invent a new antiviral from scratch, the scientists said.
The list of drug candidates appeared in a study published on the web site bioRxiv. The researchers have submitted the paper to a journal for publication.
