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Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health; MD, PhD. Fellow, American College of Epidemiology. Infectious and Chronic Diseases.

Joined June 2023
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The Senate hearings of Anthony Fauci on Wednesday demonstrate the end state of the toxic paternalism of an incompetent bureaucracy.
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I am honored to report that President Trump has appointed me to Chair the President's Cancer Panel (prescancerpanel.cancer.gov/). This panel monitors the progress of the National Cancer Program and reports to the President on it. I look forward to serving.
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What we knew in 2020 about the effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine in treating outpatients with Covid-19, confirmed again: xitter.twitterapi.xyz/newstart_2024/status/1…
RFK Jr. Exposes the Real Reason Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine Were Suppressed In a stunning revelation, RFK Jr. lays bare the hidden motives behind the aggressive suppression of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine during the COVID-19 pandemic. These drugs—both with decades of proven safety and billions of doses administered—were systematically discredited, not for medical reasons, but for legal and financial ones. At the heart of the issue: a little-known federal law prohibiting the FDA from granting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for vaccines if any existing, approved medication is shown to be effective against the target disease. If ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine had been acknowledged as effective against COVID-19, the EUA for vaccines would have been illegal. The result? A $200 billion vaccine enterprise could have collapsed overnight. Despite mounting evidence—including 17,000 doctors signing petitions and numerous peer-reviewed studies—officials like Tony Fauci led a relentless campaign to discredit these treatments. Ivermectin, a Nobel Prize-winning drug, was dismissed as “horse medicine,” while hydroxychloroquine was falsely labeled as dangerous. The goal? To ensure the vaccines remained the only “approved” solution. But why did the attacks continue even after the vaccines received EUA? The law appears to require that EUA status be revoked if a functional treatment emerges. The incentive to “kill” ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine was never about science—it was about protecting a financial empire. Leading experts, including Yale’s Harvey Risch and Dr. Peter McCullough (the most published physician in his field), have treated tens of thousands of COVID patients successfully with these drugs. Their conclusion, backed by data: Half a million American lives could have been saved. This isn’t just a medical scandal—it’s a betrayal of public trust. The question remains: How many lives were lost to protect a narrative?
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The employees claimed religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate but say they were not accommodated by the transit agency, and subsequently lost their job
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A federal jury has sided with fired BART workers who sued the agency claiming they lost their jobs over a COVID vaccine mandate. There are six of them total in the lawsuit and each will receive more than $1 million.
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Dr. Risch's involvement as an expert epidemiology witness in a legal case just concluded: BART workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate to get over $1M each, federal jury decides: msn.com/en-us/news/other/bar…
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Excellent essay on the straitjacketing of medicine by my colleague, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p…
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