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Pandemic Drones

2021 By Tactical Tech
An image of a stick figure drawing with an image of a thermometer and a
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Illustration by La Loma, based on a project featured on “Technologies of Hope: 100 Responses to the Pandemic”, 2020 by Tactical Tech.

Health care is moving upwards, with drones being used by authorities to establish temporary infrastructures of care and control: delivering stay-at-home messages, disinfecting public spaces, and enforcing social distancing and mask-wearing. Drones have also been used to monitor density in camps for the unhoused and facilities for migrant workers. The company Draganfly promises its drones can identify people in a crowd with a fever, and even those who might be taking medication to suppress a fever.

Video from Draganfly Inc, 2020.
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Still from the video Draganfly selected to integrate breakthrough health diagnosis technology to detect & monitor COVID19, published by Draganfly Inc, March 2020.
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Still from the video Draganfly selected to integrate breakthrough health diagnosis technology to detect & monitor COVID19, published by Draganfly Inc, March 2020.