Eric Topol

And in fact, many suggest that we may see another Omicron-like event just with this virus.

Because we have infinite number of mutation combinations and who knows what could happen.

But we have a lot of deaths now.

We've got hundreds of deaths.

We have more people getting long COVID.

We have vaccines that are being taken away from people.

unless they're fit with a 65 and older.

And even that is going to be hard to get in many states.

We have a mess right now.

We have a summer wave that, you know, we don't know exactly where that's going to, it probably won't be as bad as prior ones, but it's this XFG variant and all the other things that happened with, you know, with going back to school and whatnot.

What is your read on the current situation where we're being made aware

defenseless with the waning immunity and everything else.

This is scary.

Michael, I don't get it because here you have there's no one, no pandemic prepared in this office anymore.

And is this denialism?

Is it just pure stupidity?

You know, we've seen how RFK Jr.

fired the CDC director through, of course, President Trump.

But we also heard from the other people who, you know, well, these other CDC leading senior officials.

That when anything happened, like a measles outbreak or bird flu or whatever, that they have all the expertise.