# Chloroquine, SARS-CoV-2 and Lung Cancer Cells: A Study Challenged

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069767498203869687
- Source account: [@ValerieAnne1970](https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:05
- Published: 2026-06-24
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged) It's laughable. Says here, malaria drug chloroquine does not inhibit SARS-CoV-2.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=5) So this study came out this week, and this is in tissue culture.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=10) So I looked at the study, and I thought, that's interesting.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=12) I don't know what happened there, but let me look at it.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=15) So then I saw KLU3 lung cells. So they said, hey, it may work in kidney cells, but it doesn't work in lung cells.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=23) So in our evidence, yeah, it can work in vitro in kidney cells, but not in lung cells, right?

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=31) So I thought, well, that's interesting. So I worked at MD Anderson, I was in ocular oncology, and I thought about it.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=37) I said, I've heard of that cell line for KLU3 lungs.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=41) It's an adenocarcinoma, it's a lung cancer cell.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=46) So I called, I tweeted, I corresponded with the author, and I said, you are, I am so happy for your study.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=54) You just showed one of the most amazing things that I've ever seen.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=57) I never thought I would see something so clear.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=61) You just proved that when virus is around and chloroquine is around, chloroquine will let the virus attack a cancer cell.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=72) Think about that. So it will protect a normal cell, but chloroquine will not protect a cancer cell, because they're de-differentiated, the receptors are different.

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=85) I mean, think about that. So I turned them back, I said, thank you.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=88) That's the, you completely misinterpreted the data, and you hid the fact, they hid it.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=93) They put it all the way down. As you know, you have to look for the data set.

[1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=97) So I found it in the appendix, in little letters, KLU3 lung cells.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=102) This is the disinformation campaign that we are faced with.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=106) They put out a big thing, and they said, it doesn't work.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=109) They put it on Medical Express, that's it for chloroquine.

[1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=112) It's unlikely to work against SARS-CoV-2, we just proved it.

[1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=117) No, you proved chloroquine is one of the smartest drugs in history.

[2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qc53sfw5Pr1d/en/chloroquine-sars-cov-2-and-lung-cancer-cells-a-study-challenged?t=120) It will let the viruses attack cancer cells, but not normal cells.