How to Save Millions of Lives in the Approaching H5N1 Pandemic
Dear Member of the Congressional Health Subcommittee, The next pandemic could kill more Americans than any other disease in American history. Investigating what happened with Covid-19 is important. However we must learn the correct lessons and apply them immediately if we are going to avoid the anticipated avian flu pandemic catastrophe. Focusing on the origin of the virus misses the point. The point is how to start saving lives today and in the future. Covid-19 killed more Americans than all the combat fatalities in all the wars in US history. The approaching H5N1 pandemic may be ten times worse. That projected astronomical death toll easily can be reduced, but the current NIH health policy paradigm makes that highly unlikely. That policy is doomed to fail because it is directed not at protecting the lives and health of th...