Eric Topol

clusters and whatnot.

How could we be this far off where the leading public health, and this includes the CDC, are giving such bad guidance that basically was promoting COVID spread?

Oh, no, it just led to mass confusion.

And, you know, the anti-science people were, you know, just a field day for them to say that, you know, these are Nimcom poops.

And, you know, it just really, when you look back, it's sad.

Now, I didn't realize the history of the N95, speaking of healthcare workers and fitted masks.

And that was back with the fashion from the bra.

I mean, can you tell us about that?

That's pretty interesting.

Yeah, well, I mean, it's striking, too, because in the beginning, as you said, when there finally was some consensus that masks could help, there wasn't differentiation between cotton masks, surgical masks, KN95, you know, and so all this added to the mix of ambiguity and confusion.

So we get to the point, finally, that we understand the transmission.

It took way too long, and that kind of tells the COVID story.

And towards the end of the book, you're back at the Skagit Valley Corral.

It's a full circle, just amazing story.

Now, it also brings up all the lessons that we've learned and where we're headed with this whole knowledge of the arrow bone,

which is fascinating.

I didn't know that we breathe 2,000 to 3,000 gallons a day of air, each of us.

Wow.

I didn't know.

Well, of course, air is a vector disease, is a vector for disease.