<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: lato, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(91, 86, 77);" class=""><em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">By <a href="https://www.bluezones.com/dan-buettner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(20, 123, 179); line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer;" class="">Dan Buettner</a>, Blue Zones Founder </em></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: lato, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(91, 86, 77);" class=""><em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">[Interview conducted on May 29, 2020. Published on June 6, 2020]</em></p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: lato, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(91, 86, 77);" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: lato, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(91, 86, 77);" class="">We’ve been told alternatively to not wear masks, to wear masks, to stay home, and to get out and reinvigorate the economy. Hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir both got our hopes up but now have largely fizzled. We’ve heard estimates that as many as two million Americans will die and now, with 100,000 deaths, we’ve heard we’re near the end of the crisis. Is a vaccination forthcoming? How likely we to get the disease? What exactly should we do with our aging parents who are at the most risk?</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: lato, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(91, 86, 77);" class="">To get some clear answers, I called Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, an internationally known expert in infectious disease epidemiology who has advised both Democratic and Republican Presidents…</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: lato, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(91, 86, 77);" class="">See website below to continue…</p><div class=""><a href="https://www.bluezones.com/2020/06/covid-19-straight-answers-from-top-epidemiologist-who-predicted-the-pandemic/" class="">https://www.bluezones.com/2020/06/covid-19-straight-answers-from-top-epidemiologist-who-predicted-the-pandemic/</a></div></div></body></html>