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 ...