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.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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire_(medicine) | cordon sanitaire ]] term originated 1821, Redfield attributes it to "black plague", another name for the 1347-1353 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death | Black Death ]] .p090 isolating patients understood before 1800s, sanitation later .p090 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale | Florence Nightingale ]] [[ https://archive.org/details/notesnursingwhat00nigh/page/n5/mode/2up | 1860 notes on nursing ]] .p091 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces | American Expeditionary ]] Force'''S''' brought influenza to Europe .p091 Named [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu | 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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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
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
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
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
p109 SIX
p175 NINE
p199 TEN