Dear Senators on the Health Subcommittee,              After twenty years in Africa fighting HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and Covid-19, at great personal loss, I returned to the United States when I could no longer tolerate watching over 15,000 Americans dying every week of Covid-19. I knew most of those deaths easily could have been prevented. I cried for my country and my fellow citizens who were victims of a circumstance that should not have prevailed – the failure to apply known science and simple scientific principles that health authorities should have used to save lives, yet they did not.               Unfortunately, I had to sacrifice my business in South Africa to try to come to Congress to inform it how we could save lives. However in March 2022 Congress was still closed for Covid.               ...

Dear General Dr. Friedrichs, Chair of Presidential Office for Pandemic Preparedness             When faced with a deadly military attack on their country, what general ever thought, “OK, those invaders are killing our people, but in two years maybe we will develop a super anti-protease bomb that will save our lives. It will take a while, but I’m sure, sooner or later our scientists will come up with something like that. Meanwhile thousands will have to die since we currently have no effective early defenses.” That is precisely what happened with therapeutics in the NIH effort against Covid-19. The White House OPPR should stop ignoring long existing but seldom publicly referenced antiviral science. Volumes have been written in the medical literature about selenium’s benefits against a variety of viral diseases. Numerous other almost obvious broad-spectrum antiviral drugs are also hiding in plain sight. Those are not chloroquine or ...