Dr. Eric Topol

So you are the first Senate-confirmed CDC director.

Now, this finally led to your, at the end of July, you became the CDC director.

And of course, this led to, with our background, within a week or so, maybe eight or nine days, there was a shooting at the CDC, which as far as I know, might be the first shooting in the CDC in history.

Hundreds of rounds of shots were taken.

that must've been quite a thing to work through, right?

Science claims that this happened.

I mean, it's so sick, so imaginable that the CDC that's trying to keep people alive and healthy and then they're under assault by a madman.

So this is just hard to believe that this occurred.

Now, that was on the 8th of August.

We had a call on the 19th.

It was our first time that we had a chance to talk about anything.

And it was a call that actually got me pretty excited because you transmitted your vision, even having gone through this shooting, right?

even with the challenges you were facing, that you wanted to really take the CDC to a different place.

You said you have all this experience with AI and data science, and you have this experience that everyone needs to know that it's not just CDC, it's CDCP.

And you wanted to really emphasize prevention and not just for infectious diseases, but preventing

you know, the critical diseases.

And we talked about that exciting potential, about how we could do such big things on the age-related diseases, cardiovascular, cancer, neurodegenerative.

And, you know, you really got me excited about your vision for the CDC.

And you said, I said, I'd be happy, you know, to help in any way I can as an advisor.

But I said, what?