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chloroquine is not frequently used for autoimmune. At doses used for corona, it is within 50% of margin, or even lower if you are a slow metabolizer of an LD50 dose.

plaquenil on the other hand does have a higher therapeutic index.

The other major disadvantage is that these drugs can interact with protease inhibitors.



> The other major disadvantage is that these drugs can interact with protease inhibitors

What are the possible consequences of this?


Death.

Kaletra, a protease inhibitor, is a combination of two drugs, one of which is a CYP3A4 inhibitor. It is used with some success on coronavirus patients.

Co-administering this with chloroquine 500mg/BID could easily result in chloroquine concentrations well above LD50.




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