In alternative embodiments, provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising combinations of drugs, including products of manufacture and kits, and methods for using them, for treating, preventing, ameliorating, slowing the progress of, decreasing the severity of or preventing a coronavirus infection, or a COVID-19 or a 2019-nCoV (or so-called Wuhan coronavirus) infection, or an infection caused by a virus in the subfamily Orthocoronavirinae, or a virus in the family Coronaviridae, or a virus in the order Nidovirales. In alternative embodiments, combinations, or cocktails, of a drug or drugs as provided herein are administered either enterally, parenterally and/or by inhalation. In alternative embodiments, combinations, or cocktails, of drugs as provided herein are used to block intracellular metabolic pathways and prevent progression of the infection to clinical illness and death. In alternative embodiments, novel aerosol, spray or mist or powder formulations for inhalation are provided. In alternative embodiments, provided are therapeutic combinations of drugs or a drug, a pharmaceutical dosage form, a drug delivery device, or a product of manufacture, comprising: opaganib or YELIVA™, or opaganib or YELIVA™ and oral and/or inhaled chloroquine (or ARALEN™) chloroquine phosphate, chloroquine diphosphate and/or hydroxychloroquine (optionally, PLAQUENIL™), with or without azithromycin, wherein optionally each or all of the opaganib, the chloroquine (or ARALEN™), chloroquine phosphate, chloroquine diphosphate and/or hydroxychloroquine (optionally, PLAQUENIL™) and/or azithromycin, and others, are in or formulated as a formulation for inhalation, for example, formulated as an aerosol, spray, mist, liquid or powder.
