Dear Virginia General Assembly Pandemic Preparedness Committee,                    Please find enclosed the final version of my essay titled “Therapeutic Strategy to Survive H5N1 Avian Influenza, Reduce Extreme HPAI Mortality Rates and Improve Pandemic Preparedness – Part 1: Early Therapy”, along with the 2-page executive summary that briefly covers all the main points without the in-depth scientific detail contained in the essay. This final version supersedes any you may have received previously. Please realize, we can defeat pandemics through science – or pandemics will defeat us – as they did with Covid-19.               On December 16 th in the Guardian newspaper Professor Devi Sridhar, Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburg revealed that the U.S. CDC is not producing more H5N1 vaccines until it knows which strain of the vi...