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Class Action Lawsuit Against the NIH for Pandemic Negligence - ACLU

Dear ACLU Attorneys,              There is no more fundamental right than the right to life. When doctors make an incompetent mistake, something they should have known better than to do or failed to do and a person suffers egregious bodily injury, that is grounds for a lawsuit for medical negligence or malpractice. However if a national health authority falsely informs the public that there are no drugs to treat early Covid-19 disease when they know or should have known that is not true, and at least 500,000 unnecessary excess deaths occur, what should that be called? Scientific gross negligence? Scientific malpractice? Pandemic fraud? National negligent homicide or wrongful death? If a person can sue for one injury or death due to medical malpractice or negligence, why can there not be a class action lawsuit for the unjustified deaths of 500,000? If someone can sue for damage to health caused by contaminated water at Camp Le...

How to Save Millions of Lives in the Approaching H5N1 Pandemic

  Dear Member of the Congressional Health Subcommittee,             The next pandemic could kill more Americans than any other disease in American history. Investigating what happened with Covid-19 is important. However we must learn the correct lessons and apply them immediately if we are going to avoid the anticipated avian flu pandemic catastrophe. Focusing on the origin of the virus misses the point. The point is how to start saving lives today and in the future.                   Covid-19 killed more Americans than all the combat fatalities in all the wars in US history. The approaching H5N1 pandemic may be ten times worse. That projected astronomical death toll easily can be reduced, but the current NIH health policy paradigm makes that highly unlikely. That policy is doomed to fail because it is directed not at protecting the lives and health of th...