Dear Senator Sanders,             One simple mistake by the National Institutes of Health NIAID cost the American taxpayer over three trillion dollars. If this repeated failure in pandemic strategy does not change, when H5N1 influenza finally hits America, it will cost multiples of those trillions, plus potentially millions of American lives. It is almost impossible to believe how basic this mistake is, but the NIH continues to commit it pandemic after pandemic. It gets costlier each time. Please take action to End Serial Pandemic Failure by the NIH and reduce economic loses and loss of life.               Although it is impossible to totally stop viral pandemics, there is a way to make them less costly in human lives and to the American taxpayer. That is to stop ignoring how viruses kill people. How is that? Simple. Most viruses including HIV, Ebola, SARS-CoV-2, and in...