gounder: thanks, amna.l exhausted, i feel numb, which has me a bit scared because i know this is gonna hit me even harder. but nights are pretty tough. it is sort of when i get a chance to think about it, and it's really hard. amna: these messages that came up after your husband's passing from total strangers, conspiracy theorists claiming the covid vaccine was to blame. how and when did you start to see them? and what did you think in th moment? dr. gounder: well, i started to see rumors that my husband's death was related to covid vaccines, really, as soon as news broke of his death. there were all kinds of rumors, and that ended up emerging as the leading one. and it was also really important to me to find out what had actually happened, for myself and for my family, and also to put to rest some of these rumors, lies about my husband's death. and so we, i worked with the state department and others to get his remains repatriated as quickly as we could, and then to have an autopsy done as quickly as we co