{"id":104922,"date":"2020-04-07T11:04:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T18:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/military-gives-covid-patients-chloroquine-and-surges-assets-to-new-york-city"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:04:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T18:04:39","slug":"military-gives-covid-patients-chloroquine-and-surges-assets-to-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/military-gives-covid-patients-chloroquine-and-surges-assets-to-new-york-city","title":{"rendered":"Military gives COVID patients chloroquine and surges assets to New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/military-gives-covid-patients-chloroquine-and-surges-assets-to-new-york-city2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The malaria medication unproven as a remedy for coronavirus sufferers is being given to sickened troops, Joint Staff Surgeon Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs said at the Pentagon Monday, adding that New York City still faces the biggest threat from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe projections are proving not to be all that accurate,\u201d he said, noting Defense Secretary Mark Esper had authorized use of the hospital ship <i>USNS Comfort<\/i> to take on COVID patients in its limited intensive care spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Department spokesman Jonathan Hoffman added: \u201cDoD continues to surge assets to New York in preparation for the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The malaria medication unproven as a remedy for coronavirus sufferers is being given to sickened troops, Joint Staff Surgeon Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs said at the Pentagon Monday, adding that New York City still faces the biggest threat from the virus. \u201cThe projections are proving not to be all that accurate,\u201d he said, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}