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Pic related are the top 5 most promising treatments for the first SARS outbreak. Even though some of them had some mild success, all of them failed to get approved. There's a reason viruses are hard to kill, without doing damage to the host. If you think the odds are in our favor of success first try, you're delusional. Just because chloroquine was shown to treat malaria (not a viral disease) and lupus erythematosus (genetic disease), doesn't mean it will be effective against a viral infections. And at most, as I said, it will help with the autoimmune response, not the viral replication (or in layman's terms, it won't slow the spread)