Dear Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Dawn O’Connell,              When speaking to his general staff in World War Two General George S. Patton said, “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” Unfortunately, during the recent War on Covid the NIH and CDC thought too much about new drug development and vaccines and not enough about novel targets for pharmacologic interventions, early therapy, broad-spectrum antivirals, and late therapy. The NIH missed two obvious targets for pharmaceutical interventions to save lives. That omission more than doubled the mortality rate of Americans compared to what would have been achieved if those interventions had been used.               A much less famous quote than General Patton’s is from Dr John Fahey the first Director of the UCLA arm of the Multi-centered AIDS Cohort Study - MACS. Cha...

  Dear Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Corona Virus Pandemic,             I watched the first hearing of the Congressional Subcommittee on the Corona Virus in its entirety. The bad news is it is impossible to prevent a highly contagious, respiratory, airborne virus from going pandemic. No one has ever prevented a flu pandemic or contagious respiratory virus from doing so. It is only possible to reduce its morbidity and mortality, and to a lesser extent its infection rate. It is impossible to totally prevent a pandemic.               It is imminently possible to greatly reduce the impact of a viral pandemic if you understand viruses better. Deaths from Covid-19 easily could have been reduced between 50% and 75% if health authorities had applied two simple scientific facts. One relates to how viruses replicate and grow exponentially. The other relates to wha...