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 .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 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton | John Bolton ]] disbands [[ United States National Security Council | National Security Council ]] Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense
 .p054 No overall CDC budget, Congress funds specific progeams
 .p055 Cong. [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cole | Tom Cole ]] and Sen. [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Blunt | Roy Blunt ]] fought for $40M rapid response fund
 .p057 NIH salary reduced from $375K to $165K by aggrieved HHS secretary [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Azar | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juul | 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.
  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory | COVID-19 lab leak theory ]] most scientists say zoonotic transmission from bats, to wild animals at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huanan_Seafood_Wholesale_Market | Huanan Seafood Market ]] to ~30 customers
 .p063 no [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection | 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

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."
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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


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