>> we don't have stuff in place, ready to go, if we were to get hit again, do we? >> not yet. i'm hoping this is something we're going to be addressing shortly. there are so many areas where we're weak. >> leading question, fair point. however, he did agree with the assertion that we don't have it. and it boggles me. yes, the obama administration gave a book to the trumps about, here's what you need to do, when they came in. you would think, doc, that now we would be working on reagents, swabs, ppe. you know, have contact tracing staff, and mechanisms for it to spread quickly in case this ever happens again. and we don't. why? >> it's a really good question. it gets to the heart of what we need to contend with if we want to be able to respond to the next pandemic. there will be another pathogen that comes our way.