As the coronavirus outbreak has unfolded, about 300 separate trials into different drugs and experimental therapies have been launched in the absence of any established treatments. Other compounds being tested include the anti-HIV drug Kaletra and other medicines that are normally used to treat hepatitis and malaria. Kaletra is a combination drug used to control HIV. I’m sceptical that a very specific drug for HIV protease is going to work against a coronavirus. The same replication process occurs in all coronaviruses, raising hopes that if the drug works on one, it will work on all.

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2020 11:00 UTC