I don't know about the efficacy of Chloroquine in treating COVID-19 but I would imagine that we already know a lot about the safety of dosing people with the drug. Any one growing up in the tropics during the 70s or 80s took regular doses for malaria treatment. The main adverse reaction that often happened was a crazy amount of itching (it would last for 3 days and would not let up even when you were trying to fall asleep)
I remember taking malaria tables in preparation for a holiday trip to the tropics.
I would have been 12 or 13 years of age and this would have been in mid 70s.
As part of that same preparation I also had 2 jabs (I think for Yellow Fever and Cholera) and if I remember correctly I had to take one malaria tablet a day, for a period of two weeks prior to the start of the trip.
I honestly don't remember any side effects from taking those malaria tablets, but I do remember the 2 days of numbing pain in my arm, which I assumed was caused by the two jabs.
from what dr fauci said, they wanted to be sure there weren’t any adverse affects for people who already have covid. But that they know it’s safe under normal circumstances
