[2], a preliminary clinical trial was implemented in France on a small cohort of COVID-19 patients [3]. A significant viral load reduction was observed in the 20 patients treated with CLQ-OH [3], a CLQ derivative with increased solubility in water and decreased toxicity [4]. With the aim of preventing bacterial super-infection, six additional patients in this trial also received ATM for 5 days. All these patients had undetectable viral load after 6 days