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• 2025 Multco 362.1969 R315r 2025

Redfield's Warning

What I Learned (But Couldn't Tell You) Might Save Your Life

Dr. Robert R. Redfield . Former CDC Director

• no index, table of contents, chapter titles, footnotes, or references

• Skyhorse Publishing isn't the pinnacle of book publishing

• 18th CDC director 2018 March 26 to 2021 January 20 - - 33 months 25 days

• pvii Acknowledgements

• p001 ONE

• p008 Three people from Redfield's father's team won the Nobel Prize for medicine. ... "but when I was 5 years old, he died."
  • Robert Ray Redfield Sr. 1923-1956, surgeon and cellular physiologist

  • Obituary 1956 Jan 5

  • Redfield Jr. born 1951 July 10 so he was 4 years 5 months 26 days old when his father died

• p009 Teenage job 2 summers (what age?), labwork with Dr. Sol (not Saul) Spiegelman at Columbia

• p012 Walter Reed more service members with infectious diseases than killed or wounded in combat

• p016 Ibsen's 1882 "medical" play An Enemy of the People

• p017 at CDC 1981, patients with unusual symptoms ... HIV/AIDS

• p022 Walter Reed colleagues "reluctant" to treat AIDs patients (homosexuals and drug abusers)

• p025 TWO

• p025 3 Ebola outbreaks during Redfield tenure

  • in DR Congo, US cases were in 2014

• p026 Public perception AIDs is gay men and IV drug users, 30% of Redfield cases were women, 50% married, half of husbands infected
• p027 proof that AIDS virus a bidirectional transmitted disease, including heterosexuals
• p029 physicians should diagnose AIDs (all patients?), not people who are just HIV positive
• p029 not just a temporary condition
• p029 American Red Cross tested for AIDS, but did not inform infected donors. "right NOT to know" ???
• p030 Illegal to put positive HIV test in New York and California patient records
  • example of bleeding during childbirth, jeopardizing delivery team

• p030 Ibsen's An Enemy of the People

  • Redfield omitted "An" Enemy...
• p031 major Redfield told by general to not publicise HIV; Redfield responded with three options (1) fire me (2) tell superiors "message conveyed", (3) support me
• p033 Told AIDS convention that everyone infected would develop disease, booed by audience.

  • Wikipedia HIV article says prompt treatment zeros risk

  • Undetectable = Untransmittable

• p036 "generally accepted consensus" HIV entered humans eating SIV infected monkeys

• p045 THREE

• p045 1942-46 "Office of Malaria Control in War Areas" in Atlanta
  • mile-deep mosquito-free zones around 2200 military bases and factories in 32 mostly southern states and Caribbean.

• p047 CDC discovered causes of toxic shock syndrome and legionnaires' disease

• p050 CDC test exercise: Killer flu, not enough needles and syringes - should elderly go without?
  • As an "elderly", I'd accept a used/autoclaved syringe rather than no vaccine
• p051 policy recommendation: reduce vaccine development time to less than year

• p053 May 2018 - John Bolton disbands National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense

• p054 No overall CDC budget, Congress funds specific progeams

• p055 Cong. Tom Cole and Sen. Roy Blunt fought for $40M rapid response fund

• p057 NIH salary reduced from $375K to $165K by aggrieved HHS secretary Alex Azar who previously approved original $375K

• p058 50% of all infections occur in 48 counties, DC, and San Juan P.R.
• p058 Nicotine products used by 37% of high school students and 20% of middle school students

• p058 Juulpod 10x nicotine of one cigarette.

• p059 Azar controlled all CDC communications, tried to edit scientific publications, self-appointed on-air spokesman
• p061 2019 Dec 31, unexplained pulmonary illness in China, three families with multiple infections, first red flag
• p062 2019 September or October "huge respiratory illness outbreak in a Wuhan lab" CITATION NEEDED.

  • COVID-19 lab leak theory most scientists say zoonotic transmission from bats, to wild animals at Huanan Seafood Market to ~30 customers

• p063 no nosocomial infections

• p063 Redfield: "Every single one of them has been there" (the wet market)
• p064 Jan 11 China officially announced first death from this disease

• p065 FOUR

• p067 It's not a sin to be wrong in science ... but hypotheses must be debated and tested. Data shows right or wrong.

• p068 Diamond Princess 3700 passengers, floating petri dish

• p069 new and different virus, almost half of infections asymptomatic
• p069 asymptomatic patients weren't tested.
• p070 mid-February 14 cases and no deaths. Statisticians predicted 2.2 million deaths by September
• p073 Early March $7.8B congressional appropriation for public health agencies and $0.5B for vaccine research
• p073 80% of all cruise ships at sea had outbreaks
• p075 Trump partial travel ban, prohibiting non-American entry from Europe
• p075 March 14 No Sail Order for 150+ passenger ships

• p077 "no evidence that school children were bringing home infections" wrong

• p077 Fauci, Brix, Azar, and Redfield disagreed about COVID. "Government absolutely needs to speak with one voice", which Redfield assumes is his
• p079 Fauci 2020 March "I can say we will see more cases, and things will get worse than they are right now"
  • at the time, 1000 cases and 31 deaths. 9As of 2026 March, 103M cases and 1.2M deaths)
• p081 Focus became avoiding 2.2M deaths
• p082 North Carolina refused CDC research. Many crowded Hispanic food workers, 44% of cases in 10% of population
• p083 New York first confirmed case March 1; March 27 23K cases and 265 deaths, April 6 72K cases and 2500 deaths
• p084Wrong belief: SARS-like, if infected also symptomatic
• p085 Miscommunication put many infected patients in nursing homes
• p085 "Many people don't like to admit" that staff working multiple nursing homes carried infection with it.
  • or, some powerful people make hasty statements that are easily misinterpreted

• p087 FIVE

• p088 Medical personnel gloved, worried about AIDS from blood on hands, real risk was needles and cuts.
  • Retractable needles and shatterproof tubes better for safety

• p089 cordon sanitaire term originated 1821, Redfield attributes it to "black plague", another name for the 1347-1353 Black Death

• p090 isolating patients understood before 1800s, sanitation later

• p090 Florence Nightingale 1860 notes on nursing

• p091 American Expeditionary ForceS brought influenza to Europe

• p091 Named Spanish Flu because other nations censored death tolls

• p092 spitters fined one dollar, 50% of unskilled daily wage
• p094 2020 COVID CDC guidelines similar to 1919 Spanish flu medical/isolation guidelines
• p095 Guideline distancing of 6 feet compromise, Redfield favored 3 feet and hand washing

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