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by Sanjay Gupta


  prevention failures, 43–44

  proactive testing, 55, 57–58, 59, 184

  probiotics, 207–8

  Project Lightspeed, 110

  PROOF plan acronym, 131 See also pandemic-proof plan

  protein synthesis, 76

  public health infrastructure and, 39, 59, 158

  programs for, 159

  surveillance data, 56–57

  See also public health measures

  public health measures, 6 contact tracing, 37–38, 157, 184

  guidelines for, 64

  isolation, 157, 184

  mask wearing, 43, 121, 140, 144, 146, 170, 184

  physical distancing, 43, 46, 134, 140, 144, 146, 154, 170

  See also response protocols

  public health multisystem failures, 49–65 China’s COVID deception, 51–53

  influenza model vs. COVID, 54–58

  prevention, 43–44

  public health messaging, 60–65

  testing, 57–60

  public health sector marketing, 150

  pubmed.gov, 152

  quarantines, 157

  R0 value, 8

  racial disparities, 28–29, 184, 195, 220

  Ramses V (pharoah of Egypt), 98, 101

  rapid test kits, 180

  Reagan, Ronald, 34

  reality distortion field, 34

  Red Dawn, 49

  Redfield, Bob on American health, 38

  on Azar, 61–62

  as CDC director, 33

  on Chinese government deception, 51–52, 53

  on COVID as endemic in U.S., 130–31

  early symptomatic focus and, 54

  on lab theory, 82, 83

  on obesity, 195–96

  on set point theory, 197

  testing and, 58, 59, 60

  on vaccines, 97

  on virus-vaccine relationship, 122–23

  relative risk, 172–73

  response protocols, 36 by British Columbia, 133–37

  by South Korea, 37–38, 46–47, 156–57

  by Taiwan, 157

  by United Kingdom, 37–38

  by United States, 27–34, 42–43, 147–48, 156–57

  retroviruses, 118

  risk assessment, 181–83

  risk-benefit analysis for children, 187–88

  risk response evaluations. See pandemic risk response evaluations

  RNA vs. DNA, 75–76

  vaccines based on, 96–97, 114

  virus coexistence with, 76

  RNA nucleotides, 75

  RNA viruses, 86, 107–8, 180

  rodents, 78–79

  rotavirus vaccine, 97, 105

  Russian flu pandemics (1889, 1892), 25

  Sahin, Ugur, 109, 110, 111

  Sambourne, E. L., 104

  Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 21

  SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic (2002–2003) Asian countries and, 6, 38, 157

  case fatality rates of, 80–81, 86, 241, 242

  COVID comparisons to, 1, 50, 54, 86–87, 88, 167

  as COVID predictor, 41

  global pandemics and, 10

  Henry and, 135–36, 137

  as warning, 85–86, 156

  SARS-CoV-2. See COVID

  SARS virus vaccines for, 103, 147

  zoonotic nature of, 76, 84

  See also SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic (2002–2003)

  schistosomiasis, 147

  scholar.google.com, 152

  sciencedirect.com, 152

  Sell, Tara Kirk, 151

  Sentiment Index, 154

  September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 15, 21, 30, 43, 150

  Sesame Street, 34

  set point theory, 196–97

  Shariff, Azim, 21–22

  Sheen, Charlie, 49

  shingles vaccine, 114

  Shi Zhengli, 84–85

  Shohamy, Daphna, 167–68

  sickle cell disease, 110

  sleep, 212–13

  smallpox deaths from, 101

  as endemic disease, 97–98

  horsepox and, 100

  vaccination, 101, 102–3, 104, 180

  vaccine, 46, 98, 99, 102, 105

  social circles, 230–32

  social distancing. See physical distancing

  social group confirmation bias, 177–78

  social media, 185

  social support, 216–17

  Soderbergh, Steven, 4

  South Korean response protocols, 37–38, 46–47, 156–57

  Spanish flu pandemic (1918), 7, 17, 25, 40, 144, 153, 214, 251

  spike proteins, 100, 106, 108, 111, 113, 114, 118, 238

  Standard, Kelly, 178–79

  Standard, Kimberly, 178–79

  Stanley, Wendell Meredith, 74

  state health departments, 61

  Strachan, David, 234

  stress, 213–14

  Suarez, Francis, 23

  subunit/recombinant/conjugate vaccines, 105, 106

  SurvivorCorps.com, 239, 240

  SuzeOrman.com, 224

  Swayze, Patrick, 49

  swine flu (H1N1), 10, 26, 77, 242, 243

  symptomatic case focus, 54

  Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, 157

  Tapper, Jake, 163

  T cells, 113, 114, 204

  test, trace, and isolate, 121

  testing failures of, 57–60

  proactive, 55, 57–58, 59, 184

  routine, 138

  tetanus, 105–6

  Thomas, Lewis, 127, 132

  thriving gap, 221–22

  toilet plume, 233

  Townsend, Fran, 29, 30

  toxoid vaccines, 105

  transmission. See human-to-human transmission

  travel, 8, 33–34, 77, 226–28

  trolley problem, 165

  Trump, Donald, 7, 29, 43, 50, 51, 63, 197

  Trump administration COVID response, 14, 32–34, 60, 62–63

  tsunami stones, 156

  Türeci, Özlem, 109, 110, 111

  universal vaccines, 159

  U.S. CDC (Centers for Disease Control) coronaviruses illustration by, 107

  federal funding shortfalls, 157

  pandemic defintion by, 44–45

  pandemic internal modeling, 53

  pandemic preparations, 45

  symptomatic case focus of, 54

  testing failures by, 58–59

  test kits by, 58

  warning to public health experts about, 49

  White House tampering of publications by, 60–61

  U.S. COVID death response, 27–34

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 29, 56

  U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 22, 49, 56

  U.S. Department of Justice, 201

  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the Office of Public Health, 49

  U.S. Government Accountability Office, 228

  U.S. long-term-care facilities, 228–29

  U.S. obesity rates, 194

  U.S. pandemic preparedness cost vs. risk analysis, 157–60

  investment, 157

  U.S. public health emergency declaration, 8, 201

  U.S. response protocols, 27–34, 42–43, 147–48, 156–57

  vacations, See also travel

  vaccination, 94, 95–125 ancient viruses, 124–25

  anti-vaccination movement, 94, 97, 102–5, 104, 147–48, 149, 185

  children and, 188–89

  COVID positives after, 114, 119–20

  history of, 97–102

  human immune system and, 112–14

  inequitable vaccination rates, 184

  normalization, 150

  smallpox, 101, 102–3, 104, 180

  See also COVID vaccines; vaccine myths; vaccines

  Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), 122

  vaccine hesitancy, 15, 103, 149, 150, 168, 185

  vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), 173

  vaccine myths af
ter COVID illness immunity, 120

  bulletproof after vaccination, 121

  COVID variants and, 121–23

  DNA changing, 106–7, 118

  effectiveness and safety lacking, 118–19

  getting the disease, 119–20

  herd immunity and, 121–22

  infertility, 117–18, 184–85

  questionable substances inside, 120–21

  underlying conditions, 123–24

  vaccine passports, 227

  vaccines adverse reactions to, 173–75

  based on RNA, 96–97, 114

  diplomacy, 103

  equitable global access to, 122, 184, 246

  highly communicable diseases, 77

  measles, 105

  measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), 114

  rotavirus vaccine, 97, 105

  for SARS, 103, 147

  shingles vaccine, 114

  types of, 105–7

  viral vector vaccines, 105, 106, 118

  See also COVID vaccines; mRNA vaccines; vaccination; vaccine myths

  Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism (Hotez), 148–49

  vagus nerve, 205–6

  Vancouver Canucks, 135

  variants of COVID. See COVID variants

  variant-specific vaccines, 111–12, 116

  vascular disease, 89

  viral DNA code, 124

  viral genes, 71

  viral pneumonia, 1

  viral vector vaccines, 105, 106, 118 See also adenoviruses

  virome, 70

  viruses, 69–93 chain of transmission, 86, 100–101, 112

  COVID as RNA virus, 86–93

  COVID lab leak theory and, 81–86

  definition of, 69

  evolutionary origins of COVID and, 75–81

  known history of, 72–74

  ubiquitous nature of, 70–71

  See also coronaviruses

  virus-vaccine relationship, 122–23

  vitamins and supplements, 200

  Warner, Allan, 101

  Weed (documentary), 69

  Weissman, Drew, 111

  White House coronavirus task force, 45, 47

  WHO (World Health Organization), 49, 56, 58, 84, 85, 99, 103, 124, 136

  WHO dashboard, 186

  wildland conversion, 130

  Williams, Charles, 94

  Winogradsky, Sergei, 202

  Wolfe, Nathan, 70, 152–53, 154–55

  women, 184–85

  Woodward, Bob, 34

  work-life balance, 232–33

  World Economic Forum, 153

  World War C, 5, 17, 132

  Wuhan City, 1, 5–6

  Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), 52, 81, 85

  Xi Jinping, 51

  Yan, Li-Meng, 2

  yellow fever vaccine, 105

  zika virus, 106, 110

  zoonotic infectious diseases, 79

  zoonotic viruses, 76

  Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, 167

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