Book Summary: Understanding Covid-19, How 500,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved

               Understanding Covid-19, How 500,000 American Lives Could Have Been Saved explains how half the people worldwide who died of Covid-19 could have been saved by using two different types of medical interventions in both early and later therapy - selenium and NF-kappaB inhibitors. The anti-scientific misdirection and coverup of life-saving medications by the pharmaceutical-industrial-complex were responsible for just as many or more deaths than the antivaxxers were.

            The human body needs selenium as much as it needs water or oxygen. Selenium fuels the immune system. It is the key to maintaining health and survival when viral pandemics hit. Adequate selenium makes the difference between life and death in diseases like Covid-19, Ebola, HIV, and influenza. Viruses kill people by attacking their selenium supply.

            A second class of antiviral drugs that could have saved lives was also covered up by insufficient information from medical authorities who wanted to focus on developing new more expensive drugs rather than saving lives. Millions died as a result. Who knew that nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs -NSAIDs – including aspirin are also effective broad-spectrum antiviral drugs?

            This book explains pandemic science in easily understandable terms with a dash of humor. Then it asks what will happen when the REAL Killer Pandemic strikes. Serial pandemic failure by national and international health authorities has set the world up for monumental catastrophe when the next pandemic arrives.

             Howard Armistead has researched viral diseases for over three decades. In 2014 he was the only person in the world to provide an effective treatment for Ebola to Liberia. Selenium increased Ebola survival rates by more than half. Understanding Covid-19 consists primarily of my commentary that appeared in newspapers across Southern Africa to explain Covid-19 and how to survive it to the average reader. It blends plain writing, common sense, disease history, and humor, with just enough hard science to satisfy those who take science seriously, blended into a pandemic cocktail that will make you want to ask for more. Finally, you will Understand Covid-19 better and why it did not have to happen this way.     

            The information in this book may save your life or the life of someone you love in this pandemic or the next. It includes enough science in the extended reference section to convince the greatest sceptic.  

            Understanding Covid-19, How 500,000 American Lives Could Have Been Saved is available from Amazon.com

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