[thorum]

This is especially interesting since there have been reports that China was testing HIV treatments on patients with the coronavirus:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-abbvie-hiv/c...

[Arete314159]

Yes they are BUT it's my understanding those HIV drugs had already been used against SARS and found helpful in an anecdotal way. So it would be an obvious first go-to drug.

[sct202]

HIV drugs were used on SARS over a decade ago. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15144898

It shouldn't be surprising that this new virus that is related to SARS can also be treated by HIV antiviral drugs.