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Seth Berkley

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

I mean, 20% of the milk at one point was infected with virus.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

Yes, but this is the point.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

So we're not investing in these.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

And the environment, the problem is, is that when the government – and you have to understand from an investor point of view, people are saying, okay, well, I don't know what the return is going to be because people don't care about this.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

But the other side of it is –

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

you got to get these things through regulatory agencies.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

And if the regulatory agencies are hostile to, you know, technologies like mRNA, et cetera, then you may have delays, which in, you know, delays in biotech is money.

Ground Truths
Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

So you've got academic investigators really doing exciting work.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

Those need to be converted into, you know, trying to turn it into real products.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

And there's not a lot of appetite right now for that.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

And

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

So, I mean, in the area of AI crossover, there is some interest because, of course, there's a lot of funding available for AI, and you can do really amazing things, AI for good, by using it for these types of technologies.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

But even then, you still have to turn them into vaccine products.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

And mucosal vaccines, the same thing.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

I mean, the barrier is potentially high on the regulatory side, but we need to work through that.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

And

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

And today with AI, you can begin to do much better predictions of what's happening.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

You can understand toxicities in silico.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

You can begin to drive towards having, you know, really understanding exactly what you're doing.

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Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book

And let's just remind people that the reason we had COVID vaccines in 327 days was because