I thought since an antimalarial pill has been shown to be helpful in turning around the recovery for a few individuals that perhaps it produces a response in the body that also affects the virus. Since my course with the disease has run, perhaps my body now has the means to kill the virus. I know the pills attack the larva stage as it tries to get into the red blood cells but I was hoping battling the disease for 23 years has caused my body to develop a killing mechanism of its own that could affect the virus. My father was in the pacific islands during WWII and came home with the disease and his attacks lasted for 22 years. The disease usually quits with attacks in 20-25 years. I acquired the disease in Africa while on antimalarial pills and my attacks lasted 23 years. I don't know what is left in the body after those years, if anything. The disease damages the alveoli in the lungs but mine is relatively minimal and restricted to my right lung. However, I was hoping it engenders antibodies or something that would attack the virus. Something in my body does not do well with vaccines. I wound up in the hospital after the flu vaccine and the same thing happened after the pneumonia vaccine and I was taking antimalarial pills when I caught malaria, so I would not be keen to get a Coronavirus vaccine and was hoping my years with malaria would have stimulated a response in my body that would accomplish what the pills have shown to do on the few people so far. Thanks, Jill

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