The COVID-19 recommendations hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and now artemisinin all have one thing in common: They are antimalarial drugs or have such properties.
Yet studies suggest that this may not be a mere coincidence; malaria and COVID-19 may be more similar than people may realize.
Malaria Versus COVID-19
From the outset, malaria and COVID-19 are very distinct diseases.
Malaria is a parasitic disease. An infection starts when an individual is bitten by a mosquito carrying a parasite from the Plasmodium genus. Upon infection, the parasite first goes to the liver and multiplies in liver cells. Then it migrates to the bloodstream, invades and proliferates in red blood cells, and causes these cells to expand and burst….