Noah Wyle

We wanted to just be presentational with what emergency rooms look like.

I wrote that episode and I couldn't resist.

And just taking one stance, which I thought was fairly benign, which is to talk about the efficacy of masks in cutting down the transmission of disease and germs, which shouldn't be a political statement and shouldn't even be called into question.

And yet it has been the last couple of years.

And it's a great statement.

sort of metaphor for all the distrust that's been seeded between us and our doctors.

And it's really, I think, incredibly unfortunate.

And I don't know if by the time this airs how much worse the situation is going to get, but 20% of the NIH was just laid off.

We're going to be seeing the tale of that decision-making for years and years and years to come.

Well, that was what was so funny is we wrote these episodes almost a year ago.

And so when we did a storyline about neurocystic sarcosis, we had no idea that RFK Jr.

was going to be diagnosed with neurocystic sarcosis.

Nor did we think when we did a measles storyline that it was going to be as topical as it is right now.

Nine months ago, it wasn't.

But it wasn't hard to look into your crystal ball and see what was going to happen if vaccine rates continued to drop.

And we live with an international community that travels all the time.

Like we are as vulnerable as the next incoming flight.

Oh, I'm glad.

I've gotten some mail from Philly that didn't appreciate it.

I know.