In the science journals:
My conclusion, as a layperson, would be that the Chloroquine-based treatment has good potential and can constitute a [partial] cure, but it can also offer prophylaxis.
Even though more trials need to be conducted and it doesn't work every time, the alternative is bleak for the more serious cases... It may be the best the doctors have for now, while they are trying to develop a better form of treatment. A vaccine is still, from what we read, 12 to 18 months away at best.
Logically, the manufacturing of such drugs as used in these trials ought to be ramped up in the UK and other European countries, and the drugs used systematically for now, for want of an alternative. How long will that take? Britain and other European countries are not even able to get hold of enough protective equipment for their medical staff as things stand...
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