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Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode. You may know me as someone who could probably be a very good neurosurgeon.

I'm used to getting into people's heads, but in my spare time I'm just a reporter and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about power change and the people you need to know were part of the VOX Media Podcast Network.

Today in the red chair is Dr. Lloyd Minor, the Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine.

He's also the author of a new book called Discovering Precision Health, Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Wellbeing, which comes out March 20th.

We'll talk about the big public health issue that's on everyone's mind right now, which is the coronavirus outbreak, as well as how tech is changing the study and practice of health care.

Dr. Minor, welcome to Recode Decode.

Thanks. It's great to be here.

So I'm going to start, I'm going to go into your background and stuff like that, but let's talk about right now the coronavirus.

Anyone who has any ability to talk about it intelligently, we love to talk about, and we're having tomorrow having Ron Clayne, who was the Ebola's R under the Obama administration.

Talk a little bit about where you think we are and how Stanford is handling this, because I think probably every major medical center is discussing this at length.

This is a serious public health concern, but it's not a cause for panic. Specifically to your question about Stanford, we're prepared.

None of us knows the extent of the spread, but we just opened two wonderful new inpatient facilities at Children's Hospital.

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