Dr. John Froude is a practicing physician and  Infectious Disease Specialist who graduated from Guy’s Hospital London and has worked in UK, Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United States. In the USA he has worked at the Rockefeller University and New York University. Currently he works in upstate New York out of semi-retirement for the COVID 19 pandemic and has written about his current experiences in Air Mail, an online magazine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.