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More than a million people have now died from COVID-19, because of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Currently, the FDA has approved remdesivir, an inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 replication, to treat COVID-19, though very recent data from WHO showed little if any COVID19 protective effect. Here we report that ethacridine, a safe and potent antiseptic use in humans, effectively inhibits SARS-CoV-2, at very low concentrations (EC 50 ~ 0.08 μ M). Ethacridine was identified through a high-throughput screening of an FDA-approved drug l