The USA military will have a storehouse of malaria medication. They were vitamins in places like South Vietnam. The Joint Chiefs should already be asking to look at their supply of drugs.
"Role of US Military Research Programs in the Development of US Food and Drug Administration - Approved Antimalarial Drugs
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 43, Issue 1, 1 July 2006, Pages 67–71,
US military physicians and researchers (click here) helped identify the optimum treatment dose of the naturally occurring compound quinine and collaborated with the pharmaceutical industry in the development and eventual US Food and Drug Administration approval of the synthetic antimalarial drugs chloroquine, primaquine, chloroquine-primaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, mefloquine, doxycycline, halofantrine, and atovaquone-proguanil. Because malaria parasites develop drug resistance, the US military must continue to support the creation and testing of new drugs to prevent and treat malaria until an effective malaria vaccine is developed. New antimalarial drugs also benefit civilians residing in and traveling to malarious areas....
Rating Social Distancing by CHANGE is somewhat self-defeating. So long as Americans maintain 6 FEET social distance regardless of their previous activity is what is important now. I am glad the technology can pick this up. Unfortunately, it is not a downloadable APP for individuals to modify their behavior and safety.
March 25, 2020
By Morgan Greene, Hal Dardick and Gregory Pratt
Chicagoans (click here) were ordered to stay at home starting last weekend and, according to a company grading social distancing, the city’s getting an A.
Both Cook County and the state of Illinois have high marks as of Wednesday on the “Social Distancing Scoreboard,” an interactive project based on location data collected by the company Unacast that roughly measures whether or not people are heeding the advice of officials to “flatten the curve” of the spread of the coronavirus.
The scores were determined by the change in average distance traveled compared with before the coronavirus outbreak. If residents are staying put aside from the occasional trip to the grocery store or pharmacy, the dip in travel would be apparent in the data.
A more than 40% decrease leads to an A, with grades dropping from there. Anything less than a 10% decrease — or an increase — ends in an F.
