Little could be done for children with duchin muscular dystrophy until the gene responsible

for the disease was known.

Hear about the possibilities geneticists are now exploring on the latest episode of Targeting

the Toughest Diseases, a new podcast by Bloomberg Media Studios and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest and strap yourself in because this

is going to be fascinating.

Charity Dean is the protagonist of Michael Lewis's new book The Premonition.

She's also, I'm going to give her a promotion, the head of public health of the California

Public Health Department as well as the co-founder of the Public Health Company.

If you are at all interested in how infectious disease spreads, what we're doing right and

wrong with vaccinations and containing COVID and what the risks are that we're looking

at from our current circumstances, including the very dangerous Delta variant, you're going

to find this to be an absolutely fascinating conversation.

With no further ado, my conversation with Charity Dean.

This is Master's in Business with Barry Redholz on Bloomberg Radio.

My special guest this week is Dr. Charity Dean.

She was the Deputy Public Health Officer for the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department

before becoming Assistant Director at the California Department of Public Health.

In 2020, Michael Lewis called her one of the few people who saw the real danger of the

COVID virus before the rest of the country did and she was featured as one of the main

characters in his book The Premonition, a pandemic story.

She is co-founder of the Public Health Company.

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