The Dead Zone S2E14: "Plague" (2003). Synopsis: Someone flies from China to the U.S. and falls ill with a mystery virus. As it spreads, it is identified as a SARS-like coronavirus, and people are ordered under lockdown. One doctor discovers that the virus can be stopped cold with the malaria drug chloroquine. But it may be too late.
The Dead Zone S2E14: "Plague" (2003). Synopsis: Someone flies from China to the U.S. and falls ill with a mystery virus. As it spreads, it is identified as a SARS-like coronavirus, and people are ordered under lockdown. One doctor discovers that the virus can be stopped cold with the malaria drug chloroquine. But it may be too late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkjudtP2sZc&feature=emb_title
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April 1966: Chloroquine may prevent DNA replication by inhibiting RNA transcription.
July 2020: Remdesivir may prevent DNA replication by inhibiting RNA transcription.
"Reactions of quinine, chloroquine, and quinacrine with DNA and their effects on the DNA and RNA polymerase reactions" (1966): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC224352/pdf/pnas00145-0202.pdf
"COVID-19: Rescue by transcriptional inhibition" (2020): https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/27/eabc6891.full