Redfield's Warning

What I Learned (but Couldn't Tell You) Might Save Your Life

De: Robert R. Redfield

Narrado por: Michael F. Ward

They ignored young army virologist Robert Redfield when he warned Americans that the sexually transmitted HIV virus affected heterosexual women and men just as it did gay men. They ignored Redfield when he called for the importance of early diagnosis for HIV infection. They ignored Redfield for a decade when he warned Americans that the country was not prepared for the pandemic that became Covid-19. They ignored CDC Director Redfield during the pandemic when he warned that the government needed to be more transparent with the American public: to admit that the evidence did not support shutting down the country, that certain groups were in greater danger than others, that vaccines offered only limited protection and should not be mandated.

Now Redfield is issuing another warning. And ignoring him this time puts literally millions of people lives at risk.

Robert Redfield has spent his life studying viruses. And he knows what is coming. His new book, Redfield's Warning, predicts millions of Americans are going to die in the coming pandemic—if we don’t start preparing for it now.

This fact-filled, anecdotal memoir brings listeners inside Redfield’s sub-microscopic world, introducing them to the extraordinary wonders and terrifying dangers of viruses, using the lessons of history to reinforce his dire warning. Speaking out bluntly, the CDC director during the first years of Covid-19 reveals what went right and what mistakes were made throughout the pandemic. Most importantly, he outlines a program of what needs to be done now to prepare for the bird flu pandemic that not only is coming—but may already be here.

©2025 Robert R. Redfield (P)2025 Skyhorse Audio

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“Former CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD provides us with a riveting account of his experience in the eye of the COVID-19 storm, detailing the internal deliberations, policy debates, and successes and failures of federal officials. Once called a ‘conspiracy theorist’ and ‘racist’ for asserting the novel and deadly coronavirus originated in a Chinese Communist lab, Redfield’s initial convictions have since been vindicated by later congressional investigations and intelligence assessments. As with COVID-19, the next deadly pandemic could come from a lab, where scientists engage in dangerous ‘gain of function’ research: the genetic manipulation of pathogens to enhance their transmissibility and virulence, making them deadly to humans. Bad actors plague our world. That is why Redfield insists that Washington must make biosecurity a top priority. Our safety depends on it.”

—Robert Emmet Moffit, PhD, senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation and former principal deputy assistant secretary at the US Department of Health and Human Services during the Reagan administration

“In this book, Redfield’s Warning, he again shows his great vision when he warns of the next pandemic which he knows is coming. And ‘the virus that causes it might be thousands of years old,’ he writes. A zombie virus that can’t hurt us until someone plays with it in a lab. Or bird flu, a pathogen he knows well, where Dr. Redfield has personally fought against the very gain-of-function research that has provided a clear road map for human-to-human spread to terrorists. Dr. Redfield provides a lesson from COVID that our tools of response should not cause more of a public health crisis than the virus does. At the same time, Redfield has a clear view of our infectious future, and he is worried. We would be wise to be worried too and to take the steps he outlines, which are needed to prepare and to protect ourselves.”

—Marc Siegel, MD, is a clinical professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Health. He is Fox News senior medical analyst and author of the upcoming book The Miracles Among Us

“Dr. Robert Redfield has written a book that is brilliant, bold, reflective, and full of recommendations for the future. His life story is one of great consequence, vision, and commitment to the mission of disease detection, prevention, and pursuit of cures."

—David L. Asher, PhD, senior fellow at Hudson Institute