Right on. Let’s talk about the history and chemistry of chloroquine and quinine. This will be a longish thread -- I promise payoff including one staggering "oops" and some tentative reflections about how all this relates to what's going on right now. 1/
So, as you have presumably heard, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are the "decades-old antimalarial drugs" that have been getting lots of hype over the past few days as prospective covid-19 therapeutics. 2/
