“And if there’s one message that I want to leave with you today based on my experience … is that there is no question that there will be a challenge the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases.”
“[T]here will be a surprise outbreak.” he explicitly said. “And I hope by the end of my relatively short presentation, you’ll understand why the history of the last 32 years that I’ve been the director of the NIAID will tell the next administration that there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that they will be faced with the challenges that their predecessors were faced with.”