Book Description

Understanding Covid-19, How 500,000 American Lives Could Have Been Saved explains how half the Americans and people worldwide who died of Covid-19 should not have died. Their lives could have been saved. This was not just because of the false propaganda of antivaxxers. The anti-scientific misdirection and coverup of life-saving medications by the pharmaceutical-industrial-complex are responsible for just as many or more deaths than the antivaxxers. The human body needs selenium as much as it needs water or oxygen, yet people who know about water and oxygen know almost nothing about selenium. As the key element needed to form antioxidants, selenium is the most important nutrient required to keep cells healthy. Selenium is what fuels the immune system. It is the key to maintaining health and survival when viral pandemics hit. Adequate selenium makes the difference between life and death in diseases like Covid-19, Ebola, HIV, and influenza. Viruses kill people by attacking their selenium supply. Viruses need selenium for protection as much as cells and the immune system do. A second class of antiviral drugs that could have saved lives was also covered up due to insufficient information from medical authorities who wanted to focus on developing new more expensive drugs rather than saving lives. Millions died as a result. Who knew that nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs -NSAIDs - are also effective broad-spectrum antiviral drugs? The World Health Organization - WHO - should have. Why was the public and even the medical profession never informed? A life-saving scientific rationale was thrown out the window to benefit pharmaceutical researchers and corporate excess profits. This book explains pandemic science in easily understandable terms with a sense of humor. Then it asks what will happen when the REAL Killer Pandemic strikes. Serial pandemic failure by national and international health authorities has set the world up for monumental catastrophe when the next pandemic arrives. Howard Armistead has researched viral diseases for over three decades. In 2014 he was the only person in the world to provide an effective treatment for Ebola to Liberia. Selenium increased Ebola survival rates by over half. Understanding Covid-19 consists primarily of articles that appeared in newspapers across Southern Africa to explain Covid-19 to the public and how to survive it. It blends plain writing, common sense, disease history, and a touch of humor, with just enough science to satisfy those who take science seriously, into a pandemic cocktail that will make you want to ask for more. Finally, you will Understand Covid-19 better and why it did not have to happen this way. The information in this book may save your life or the life of someone you love, in this pandemic or the next. It includes enough science in the extended reference section to convince the greatest sceptic.