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PhotoHokieNC

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Just whacked with a 1966-1968 recollection of 7 months in Central Africa.


backstory:
My parents (MPHNCRIP and FPHNCRIP) were stationed at embassies in Chad and the Ivory Coast for 5 years. Dad was State Dept FSO after his military career.

I visited them (our tax dollars at work) in Chad for three months - summers - in 1966 and 1967 and for a month (Christmas) in the Ivory Coast in 1968.

We took antimalarial drugs regularly - not sure if it was daily or weekly. Antimalarial drugs are to this day highly recommended by CDC in those countries.

If you do the half-life math (caution, I'm not math savvy) for hydrochloroquine residual in the human body I'd have built up 7560 days of protection, which is 20+ years. If that was good until I was 40, what are the chances I'm immune to COVID (a few years later)?



[Post edited by PhotoHokieNC at 04/11/2020 10:17AM]

Posted: 04/11/2020 at 10:16AM


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  Just whacked with a 1966-1968 recollection of 7 months in Central Africa. -- PhotoHokieNC 04/11/2020 10:16AM
  I have hydrochloroquine that I never took on trip to India - might be old -- DaveVT 04/11/2020 11:45AM
  I believe, at best, hydrochloroquine is being tested -- Femoyer Hokie 04/11/2020 10:36AM
  Actually not true. -- tchokie 04/11/2020 11:14AM
  It’s too late for me to not take the approach. Also -- PhotoHokieNC 04/11/2020 12:25PM

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