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* '''DON"T PANIC AND/OR HOARD FOOD/SUPPLIES''' | * '''DON"T PANIC AND/OR HOARD FOOD/SUPPLIES''' | ||
*Consult medical professionals before doing anything | |||
*Hydroxychloroquine - malaria meds that prevent this virus | *Hydroxychloroquine - malaria meds that prevent this virus | ||
*Tamiflu - antiviral | *Tamiflu - antiviral | ||
=At Risk Groups= | =At Risk Groups= |
Revision as of 23:15, 18 March 2020
What to do
- Wash your hands (not compulsively, but often with proper procedures (what you see in every restraunt bathrrom etc) )
- Social Distancing (~1 meter gap between people in public)
- Cover Sneezez/Coughs
- Go to local medical facilities if sick
- Reduce non essential travel and/or do it via alternate means (Don't fly if able, etc)
- Self quarentine if you have recently traveled to an at risk area, or have com into contact with an infected person
- Follow CDC and other Official information
- Follow local efforts such as limits on work and meetings etc
- DON"T PANIC AND/OR HOARD FOOD/SUPPLIES
- Consult medical professionals before doing anything
- Hydroxychloroquine - malaria meds that prevent this virus
- Tamiflu - antiviral
At Risk Groups
- Infants and young children
- Elderly
- Immunocomprimised (Due to disease or medication: ie un-medicated HIV, immunosuppresants, chemotherapy etc
- People with little acces to medical care (due to region and local infastructure etc)
- Most other people have low lethality rates ( [single digit percentages untill 80+ years of age https://www.sciencealert.com/covid-19-s-death-rate-is-higher-than-thought-but-it-should-drop ]
Working Doc by Colby
- Map of USA cases by Johns Hopkins - [1]
- Korea and Italy are testing everyone
- Key actions: increase ventillator parts, and open source testing procedures
- Open source protocols
- Confirmed cases is 5000 in the USA.
- Vaccine development -
- USA has 1/8 the estimated number of ventillators needed -
- Early 1918 Pandemic - flue - took a rest over summer and then 5% died. Immunity was developed. In second part, virus mutated to become more deadly.
- Vaccine companies - Wichita KS company UV C
- Live attenuated vaccine vs deactivated vaccine
- Rational vaccines -