Dear Professor Jeffrey Sachs,             I met you at the Sheraton Hotel at the Durban International AIDS Conference in 2000 on my first trip to Africa. We chatted for about ten minutes about my research on aspirin, NF-kappaB inhibitors, and selenium and how they offered a low-cost, additional way to treat HIV disease in Africa and worldwide. It is unfortunate that this science was not taken up at that time. If both these affordable effective methods of treating viral disease had been adopted more widely, it would have reduced the mortality rate of Covid-19 in the US by 60-70% and avoided the historic tragedy our nation recently suffered. Dr Peter Piot, Head of UNAIDS at the Opening of the 2000 Durban International AIDS Conference             Despite aspirin having been used to treat colds and flu for over a century, the idea that aspirin is an effective antiviral drug soun...