hit puertoane maria rico, a knocked out a large proportion of the manufacturing capacity for iv bags. doctors had use the ridges to inject fluids. we started having a shortage of syringes. a lot of the supply chain problems extend through our health care system and make us vulnerable to something that spreads quickly and causes large amounts of societal unrest. we have two lines open for you today. if you're in the eastern or central time zone, call-in. if you're in the mountain west -- or pacific time zones, call-in. what they do decide to concentrate on this topic now? guest: we are in peacetime. there is not a major crisis banging on our doors. it is now when people relax their guards and this is part of history dealing with infectious disease. a crisis hits, everyone throws money and investment. crisis abates and everyone forgets. dooms us to this level of constant unpreparedness. now is the time when we need to be raising awareness of the threat and what we can do to fix it. this is not a problem we need to be that act but we need -- be bad at but we need to make investments now.

hit puertoane maria rico, a knocked out a large proportion of the manufacturing capacity for iv bags. had use the ridges to inject fluids. we started having a shortage of syringes. a lot of the supply chain problems extend through our health care system and make us vulnerable to something that spreads quickly and causes large amounts of societal unrest. we have two lines open for you today. if you're in the eastern or central time zone, call-in. if you're in the mountain west -- or pacific time zones, call-in. what they do decide to concentrate on this topic now? guest: we are in peacetime. there is not a major crisis banging on our doors. it is now when people relax their guards and this is part of history dealing with infectious disease. a crisis hits, everyone throws money and investment. crisis abates and everyone forgets. dooms us to this level of constant unpreparedness. now is the time when we need to be raising awareness of the threat and what we can do to fix it. this is not a problem we need to be that act but we need -- be bad at but we need to make investments now. host: w