Interview with DR. RICHARD GUNDERMAN, Chancellor’s Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy, and Medical Humanities and Health Studies at Indiana University. A distinguished medical doctor, author, and historian, he has written more than 800 articles and 15 books, his most recent being Contagion: Plagues, Pandemics and Cures from the Black Death to Covid-19 and Beyond.From the interview:It was roughly a year and a half ago at the very early stages of Covid, when I was at a Broadway Show – It was about the Motown sensations, The Temptations, and I was sitting in the very last row hoping the people sitting next to me didn’t have this new Virus “thing” going around. That was the last night Broadway was open, and the NBA suspended the remainder of the season.Local politicians were telling us that parades will go on and everything is fine. Then as people were starting to get sick, we were told that by the end of the summer, the Virus would dissipate. Then the country basically shut down as there became a rush on toilet paper, masks, and sanitizers. It wasn’t too long afterwards that politics and finger pointing started as to “who was responsible for this.”Since then, the CDC and World Health Organizations started to get a handle on things, giving us guidelines about how to move forward, and for the most part, people complied as most Americans saw this as a “we’re all in this together” life-changing event. But it didn’t take long until some TV doctors got the celebrity bug, messaging got muddled, politicians and the media said they wouldn’t trust anything that took place under a certain President, only to change course and message with, “follow the science,” and “masks save lives.”Today’s guest is NOT a politician or a celebrity but a prominent doctor, Richard Gunderman, who has authored hundreds of articles and whose latest book, Contagion, goes through the history of viruses and plagues, and will educate us about everything we’re doing right, and everything we are doing wrong, and why are the health-care experts constantly changing their messaging - which only leads to more confusion and more mistrust from the American people.

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