What's up everybody? Welcome to the Mike Dolce show. We have a very important guest today.

And someone who I do call a friend, though we haven't spoke in quite some time, we have Dr. David Hawks,

virologist on the show today. And he has so generously given us his time to help us understand what the coronavirus is, what is COVID-19, what peril

the world may or may not actually be in, and what we as regular, hardworking citizens of this

beautiful planet, what we can do in our homes and in our communities to help the medical and scientific community

tackle this with all of their brilliance and all of their force and continue providing a better

health and world for us. David, how are you, sir? I'm good. Thanks. Thanks for the introduction. So yes,

I am a virologist. I did a PhD on HIV. I've worked for, I, it's getting scary now, but I've been a virologist for about 16 years and I've been in medical research for nearly 20. And my current position is my specialty is lab diagnostic. So all the testing that is now, everyone's really, really interested in

is what I've been doing for five years. And so suddenly I've got a skill that everyone's interested

in getting my feedback on. So this is that one time where I'm actually, you know, if we were

having dinner parties, I would be the popular guest. Absolutely. I'm sure you're always the popular guest.

I'm sure you got some great stories.

And we still, I mean, the first time you were on the show, we really spent most of our

time talking about vaccines because the vaccine conversation, even today, it's just as

relevant today as it was, you know, six months or six or so years ago, very relevant.

We got great feedback, very polarizing.

People who had their own bias,

they either reinforced their confirmation bias

or it completely, sorry,

or they just wanted to go out and get crazy,

either you don't get mad at you

or completely agree with love you.

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