Incidentally: I rather doubt this level of bureaucracy will be imposed against the other candidate drugs by many states.

I only see one that even bothered trying to include e.g. lopinavir-ritonavir. A few included melfloquine, and a few more included azithromycin.
Also why are they restricting mefloquine...?

To the best of my knowledge, there have been no COVID-19 human trial results released for it yet.

I don't even see anything in vivo. Just cell culture papers.

Moreover, it isn't indicated for any chronic diseases. Just malaria.
Frankly, if you want a list of things that work in cell culture, just read this thread backward. I've got dozens of them:

https://twitter.com/__ice9/status/1246701574350667778?s=19

Really, it could use another update. Investigating this mefloquine silliness led to even *more* candidates, pending tox eval.
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