Hi everyone welcome to the A6 and Z podcast I'm so glad for us to be back with the new episode

it's actually one of our special first look book launch episodes for the new book coming out this week by Dr Scott Gottlieb, physician and former head of the

U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

He was a 23rd Commissioner.

And his book is called Uncontrolled Spread by COVID-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next

pandemic.

And that's exactly what we cover in this episode with Special Gas Mark Andresen, who

wrote the Call to Arms essay, It's Time to Build Last Spring.

You can actually find a read a lot of that in this podcast feed.

And we also have A6 and Z Biogeneral partner, Dr. Venet the Agruala,

who's also an adjunct clinical professor in the Division of Primary Care and

Population Health at Stanford as well as a practicing clinician and former

operator at tech-driven bio companies and you can find her past podcast on vaccines, clinical trials,

and more.

And finally, we have A6 and Z Biogeneral partner,

VJ Ponde, PhD, who's a former founder

as well as a former professor of chemistry

structural biology computer science at Stanford and who founded the

distributed computing project Folding at home which focused its resources on

COVID protein sequencing and you can find an

episode about all that in this feed. In this episode however we touch on a wide

range of topics both about and going well beyond the pandemic, from health care to

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