: The reception to the book has been enormously positive. What’s it been like for you, witnessing that? Did you anticipate it?I would be very happy if the book was irrelevant, and the issues in it no longer existed. But I'm glad that hopefully it's helping people think through what is a compounding confusion.
When I think about one of the central messages of the book – that we have to work together and there needs to be a public commons for addressing socially-experienced infectious diseases, they cannot be dealt with alone – when I think about that, I feel like the [Biden] administration is going in two directions at the same time. I'm glad that the administration is moving on [monkeypox vaccine access].