Eric Topol

And of course, going back to the wells, the famous wells that have been, you've brought them back to light about how we're aerial oysters.

Yeah.

So these things in the air, which we're going to get to the California fires, for example, they travel a long ways, right?

And we're not talking about six feet here.

We're talking about, can you tell us a bit about that?

Yeah, no, it's extraordinary.

I mean, it really widens.

The book takes us so much more broad than the narrow world of COVID and how that got all off track and gives us the big picture.

You know, one of the things that happened more recently post-COVID was finally in the U.S.,

there was the commitment to make buildings safer.

That is, adopting the principles of ventilation, filtration.

And I wonder if you could comment on that.

And also, do you use your CO2 monitor that you mentioned early in the book?

Because a lot of people haven't gotten onto the CO2 monitor.

Where there's missing is the money and the action, right?

Yeah, yeah, no, and I think that distinction, I've interviewed Joe Allen and Lindsay Mark on Ground Truce, and they've made these points, and we need the commitment, I should say.

We need the law, because otherwise it's a good idea that doesn't get actualized, and we know how much keeping ventilation would make schools safer.

Yeah, totally.

That's amazing how it's taken all this time and how much disease and morbidity could, even death could have been prevented.

Before I ask about planning for the future, I do want to get your comments about the dirty air with the particulate matter, less than 2.5 particles.