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Understanding Our

Current Health Crisis

By Thomas Cowan, MD

Note: This article is adapted from an episode of the Wise Traditions Podcast with host Hilda Labrada Gore and guest
Dr. Tom Cowan (episode 235; April 3, 2020). Please be sure to read Tom’s post-podcast insights and comments included in
an addendum at the end of the article.

’d like to begin this article with a few disclaimers.

First, I want to be absolutely clear that my comments
Iare my personal reflections only. I am not speaking

on behalf of any group, not even the Weston A. Price
Foundation. Second, I am neither a virologist, immunol-

ogist nor epidemiologist. I’m simply a general practice
medical doctor who has thought about, studied and read

about the world in relation to health and medicine almost
every day for the last thirty-six years.

I am not privy to knowing what is going to happen with this Covid-19
situation. I don’t know how many people are going to die or how long
this is going to last. I’ve never treated anybody in my practice with this.
So, while I have comments about what may be helpful, I don’t have any
treatments or prescriptions. I’m just explaining how I see the world, for
those who may be interested. The world I want to live in is a world where
people can say things without fear of attack—some will be correct and
some will be incorrect, and that’s just life.

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