Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. These authors contributed equally: Yadi Zhou, Yuan Hou Supplementary information Supplementary Information accompanies the paper at (10.1038/s41421-020-0153-3). Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number K99 HL138272 and R00 HL138272 to F.C. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views of the Cleveland Clinic. Author contributions F.C. conceived the study. Y.Z. and Y.H. developed the network methodology and performed all computational experiments. J.S., Y.Z., Y.H., and W.M. performed data analysis. F.C., Y.Z., and Y.H. wrote and critically revised the manuscript with contributions from other co-authors. Data availability All predicted repurposable drugs and network-predicted drug combinations can be freely accessed at https://github.com/ChengF-Lab/2019-nCoV. Code availability All codes can be freely accessed at https://github.com/ChengF-Lab/2019-nCoV. Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.