Can Antimalarial Drugs Really Stop COVID-19? We Just Don’t Know Yet.

But safe and effective treatment of COVID-19 isn’t as simple as handing out medication currently available. Doctors can prescribe drugs to treat illnesses other than the ones they were approved for, and many may already be doing that to fight this disease. But experts say that’s a risky and unreliable way to combat the pandemic, and it may cause more harm than good. FiveThirtyEight