Each week we spend probably at least one segment talking about the movements and the

battles within health regulatory agencies in the United States.

And so let's jump into this now because it's moving very fast.

So we do have now a new CDC director at Susan Monterez.

She has been finally confirmed by the Senate.

So the CDC, as we know, has a long way to go to build integrity and trust, if it is even possible with the public after the failed COVID response on their end.

So she's going to take the helm here. She is an expert or her space of expertise is artificial intelligence.

So there's a lot of hope there.

There's also some concern there about how deep that's going to go.

But that's going on.

And also I want to just say just because I know there's a lot of conversations about this.

And what I can say is I did have a conversation with Robert Kennedy Jr.

Well over a month ago before I was on vacation about Susan.

And I will say this, he really liked her a lot. It was a favorite choice for him because I know a lot of people would debate. Well, is she being forced on him? Is he not, you know, there's a lot of questions. I don't have a lot of the answers. But I can say on this one, he really liked her background. He felt like she was open-minded in how she could do studies using new technologies, which he thought were going to be important for some of the work that he wanted to do. So take that as you will. If you're going to judge somebody, I think in this case, you judge Robert Kennedy Jr. on this choice because this is one that he wanted to make. And so I look forward to seeing, because I know him, I know what his goals are, I look forward to seeing what she can accomplish and hopefully he's made the right choice there.

Absolutely. And so we also have at the FDA, Vinay Prasad is out.

Remember he took over Peter Mark's old position as the head vaccine regulator, among other things.

He's left his position after less than four months.

Not a lot of real solid information going back and forth about what's going on.

There's a little murky there.

So just know that he's out, that position's open.

We're very interested to see who steps into that position now because there's a lot of sway,

at least for our audience and the

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