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Why hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine don't block coronavirus infection of human lung cells

  • Written by Katherine Seley-Radtke, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and President-Elect of the International Society for Antiviral Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageChloroquine is an antimalarial drug originally developed in 1934; it doesn't block coronavirus infection in humans. Brasil2 / Getty Images

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