Eric Topol

Now, in 2018, there was, I guess, a really important TEDMED talk by Lydia, I don't know how you pronounce her last name, Borbarilla or something like that.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

And she basically presented graphically.

Of course, all this stuff is more strained for people to believe because of the invisibility story.

But she, I guess, gave demos that were highly convincing to her audience if only more people were in her audience, right?

27 feet, I think I saw.

Yeah, right.

Geez, and amazing.

Now, the case that you, I think, centered on to show how stupid we were, not everyone, not this group of 36 we're going to talk about, not everyone, but the rest of the world, like the WHO and the CDC and others,

was this choir, the Skagit Valley Chorale in Washington State.

Now, this was in March 2020, early on in the pandemic.

There were 61 people exposed to one symptomatic person, and 52 were hit with COVID.

52 out of 61, only eight didn't get COVID, 87% attack rate.

Eventually, it was written up by an MMWR report that we'll link to.

This is extraordinary because it defied the idea of that it could only be liquid droplets, right?

So why couldn't this early event, which was so extraordinary, opened up people's mind that there's not this six-foot roll and it's all these liquid droplets and the rest of the whole story that was wrong.

It's amazing.

I mean, one of the quotes that I thought was another one I grabbed me in the book, in that group of the people that did airborne,

research, understanding this whole field, the leaders.

There's a fellow, Jose Luis Jimenez from University of Colorado Boulder.