Eric Topol

And the success rate for vaccines is 7%.

So you were basically gearing up somehow, you know, this, what, 327 days from the sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to actually having big randomized placebo-controlled trials finished and, you know, regulatory clearance to give the vaccine.

I mean, this is unprecedented and still, I think, stands...

as one of the most extraordinary medical triumphs in history.

But you didn't know that it was going to go that fast.

Yeah.

And before moving away to the broader picture, you actually had other obstacles we haven't touched on yet.

Like, for example, I think it was over 500 million doses in India that

that there was a massive supply disruption.

You had to deal with the cold chain issues of storage of things like mRNA vaccines.

Can you just tell us a bit about that?

Sure.

No, I mean, it's phenomenal.

I mean, just how you did this.

And this is a story that, you know, I think a lot of people, certainly people listening, would not be familiar with.

I mean, people know about OWS, Operation Warp Speed, but here on the global front, this one, it started earlier than OWS and it achieved a grand success.

uh, impact throughout the world.

So, you know, just amazing despite all obstacles.

Now let's go to vaccines.

Uh, they saved about 500 million lives over the years.