the WHO estimates today causes 3 million hospitalizations annually and 60,000 deaths in children under five and 14,000 deaths among adults sixty-five years and older.141 In order to discourage public discussion of those embarrassing abcesses on its sacred cow, HHS in 1984—the year Anthony Fauci became director of NIAID—quietly pushed through an astonishing federal regulation that reflected the agency’s institutional culture of paranoia, secrecy, and imperiousness but not America’s democratic values or the US Constitution: Any possible doubts, whether or not well-founded, about the safety of
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