Anti-malarial drugs and COVID-19 --- food for thought....

I've seen a number of posts here recently referring to the use of chloroquine (and similar antimalarial meds) as possible agents to help treat COVID-19.....

Why, do you think, would that be effective against this particular virus? My hunch is that this thing goes inter-cellular, like the malarial-illnesses, and destroys red blood cells. That would explain the dark, nearly black blood that is being drawn from the supposedly recovered patient, that many of you have commented about. It would also help explain why the virus seems to have a second phase in which cardiac features predominate. Is there a part of this genome that has similarity to malaria? Or some other hemorrhagic fever perhaps?

As someone who suffered from a malaria-like tickborne illness, I can tell you that antimalarial drugs can be pretty harsh and also not all that effective -- and that chloroquine was taken off the market for wide use for good reason. It's a risky choice, and safer rx antimalarials exist if you have access to them.

When I was really sick with Babesia, my blood was dark, thick, and tarry -- just like the supposedly recovered patient. Malaria goes into remission and can relapse later.... so can babesia.... and apparently, so can COVID19.

There are natural supplements that are antimalarial and are safer than chloroquine, if anyone is seriously considering self medicating. Artemisinin, Cryptolepis, Quina (an herb from which quinine was derived) Andrographis....

I have no insider info to offer, no uncle-intel, not even a bioscience background ... just the perspective of someone who has been fighting against a cluster of chronic tickborne diseases, and who has done a lot of reading on treatment.