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Healthcare CEO has made a collective four billion dollars in 2022. COVID cases are up 20 percent

over the last two weeks. A three-judge appeals court upholds severe limitations on

Mr. Preston access as the Supreme Court is set to weigh in. This is American dissected. I'm your host,

Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.

Let me start with the obvious. Either you or I died of an infectious disease. After all,

I wouldn't be hosting this then. You wouldn't be listening to it if we had. Now, think about your

siblings. Chances are none of them died of an infectious disease either. In fact, the first time

you probably really had to think about the risk of getting sick and you or a family member dying

of an infectious disease was at the peak of COVID. And even then, the risks were historically low.

What do I mean by that? I mean that for most of human history, death by infectious disease was

by far the highest probability outcome for you or a loved one. It wasn't just after a long healthy

life. It was an omnipresent risk from the day our ancestors were born. It's taken literally hundreds

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