Eric Topol

It doesn't get airborne, right?

And I wonder if you could elaborate that.

And on one of the striking statistics that I didn't know before is that if two people are sitting in a room that had tightly fit N95 masks,

they wouldn't transmit for more than a day, breathing the same air.

Can you tell us more about the airborne story and the mass?

Yeah, I mean, that's striking.

And I think that...

Something that a lot of people, that statistic, and of course the two-way mask, so critical.

Now, one of the things that you came out in the book, which some will say, hmm, is about mandates.

As you know better than anyone, we saw all this polarity because of the mandates.

It bristled a lot of people.

And one of the mandates, of course, was the lockdowns, and particularly schools.

So I want to get your view about the school mandates.

This is such a hot topic still today.

Yeah, I mean, I think, and Christian, you know, you called it.

I think a lot of people didn't appreciate and, you know, labeled you as a scaremonger, which couldn't have been the truth.

But here you are, you know, you're now trying to take all that wisdom, not just from SARS-CoV-2, but, you know, all the other things, influenza and everything else.

And you're trying to project, you know, what do we have to do?

And this transcends many different areas about universal vaccines, which many academic labs have been coming up with, not just for coronavirus, but also for influenza and other leading potential viruses that could cause a pandemic.

Surveillance systems, the critical aspect of public trust that you emphasize that we've got to reestablish, getting the right funding.