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How to Reduce Deaths in the Next Pandemic - Letter to Jeffrey Sacks

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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...

From HIV to Covid-19 and Beyond

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            Monkeypox, HIV, SARS-CoV-2, Marburg, Ebola, Zika, H5N1. The viral attack against humanity is heating up with novel viruses emerging ever more rapidly. Unfortunately, humans keep failing to learn the lessons science tries to teach. That is why I wrote two books, Understanding Covid-19, How 500,000 American Lives Could Have Been Saved, and Dear Bill Gates, How to End Serial Pandemic Failure, HIV-1 to Covid-19.                                                                                                            The First People's AIDS March in Lusaka, Zambia, 2006           ...