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Why the Covid Epidemic Ended and How Best to Combat the Next One

December 26, 2024

The late and unlamented epidemic was an exercise in misapprehension. My subject is to explain its brief course as a preparative against the next respiratory virus that achieves epidemic proportions. COVID-19 lasted about three years, just as did the flu pandemic of a century earlier. However, it was far less lethal than its predecessor, killing […]

Why the Covid Epidemic Ended and How Best to Combat the Next One
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Fauci Says Vaccines against Flu and COVID Work Poorly if at All

February 12, 2023

Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses is a paper by Anthony Fauci and two colleagues. It examines the reasons that vaccines against flu and COVID don’t work very well. This is a startling statement after all the public and repeated admonitions from Dr Fauci that everyone be vaccinated repeatedly. The summary […]

Fauci Says Vaccines against Flu and COVID Work Poorly if at All
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Neil Kurtzman

Neil Kurtzman

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Neil A Kurtzman MD is the Grover E Murray Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock. He has combined careers in clinical medicine, education, basic research, and administration for more than 40 years.

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