To me, the thing that's the scariest is that we're not watching for this stuff, right? So, you know,

you got your phone. Inbound emails are coming, all this up. And your phone is screening all

those things all the time for viruses, trying to get installed onto your device, instantaneously,

checking all the time. Meanwhile, you're in that room right there. You're breathing in air.

The air contains viruses. No screening whatsoever. no monitoring of what viruses are in that room

when it comes to your body, only your phone.

That seems like a little bit backwards to you?

We could miss things.

You know, we could miss and introduce COVID should such a thing occur.

And the implications of that were huge, monetarily, culturally, socially, you know,

those are the kinds of things that I think we should be concerned about if we're not doing

the right work from a national security perspective.

Welcome to the ripple effect, investing in life sciences.

I'm Dan Riskin. I'm a biologist and a science journalist.

And I spend a lot of time trying to understand the hidden connections that drive our world.

I'm excited about this podcast because we're going to uncover some of the unexpected ways that health sciences

influence everything from national security to economic prosperity to breakthroughs in other

fields. This podcast is from G0's Blue Circle Studio and produced in partnership with Novartis.

Now, it's obvious that investing in life sciences has payoffs for medicine and biotechnology,

but the full picture is way bigger than that.

Over the next two episodes, we're going to dive into the hidden importance of life sciences

for geopolitics, the economy, and the very resilience of our societies.

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