In response to Dr. Fauci’s lathered forecasts, the White House unveiled a Christmas list for the Bush family’s favorite medicine man, including $7.1 billion to protect Americans from his avian plague.48, 49 President George W. Bush warned that “No country can afford to ignore the threat of avian flu.”50 Dr. Fauci trotted out his reliable old chestnut that the new version of bird flu could be as lethal as the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed 50–100 million people.51 Dr. Fauci had reason to know that this weary bogeyman was a canard. In 2008, he coauthored a study for the Journal of
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