 I think many people don't think that How Not to Die was my first book, but it's actually my fourth. Before I started NutritionFacts.org, I had a career in public health, specializing in emerging infectious diseases. That's how I got to defend Oprah Winfrey and got invited on the Kobera Report and testified before Congress. And in 2006 I wrote a book on pandemic prevention and preparedness and that had an entire pandemic preparedness planning checklist for families where I have the masks ready and the hand sanitizer and the disposable gloves and the food, the water, the toilet paper, I went through the whole thing. Of course, back then few people paid much attention to the coming pandemic threat. But finally I'm able to put that expertise to use. The current coronavirus crisis provided the impetus and time for me to kind of revisit that body of work. I was in the midst of a 200 city speaking tour for How Not to Diet, my last book, before COVID-19 started spreading around the globe, I was sadly disappointed in my lectures and travel had to be suspended, only made it to about 40 of those cities. But it enabled me to seize this opportunity to once again dive deep into the pandemic preparedness literature and bring you the latest science amidst all the prevailing noise and nonsense out there. The time is not for panic, but for common sense measures to protect yourself and your family, both now and in the future against emergent outbreaks. The current COVID-19 pandemic, as deadly as it may be, may just be a dress rehearsal for the coming plague. Decades ago a flu virus was discovered in chickens that would forever change our understanding on how bad pandemics could potentially get. It was named H5N1 and appeared capable of killing more than half the people it infected. Imagine if a virus like that started spreading explosively human to human. Consider a pandemic a hundred times worse than COVID-19, not the fatality rate 1 in 200, but more like 1 in 2, a coin toss. Thankfully, H5N1 so far remained a virus more poultry than people, but it and other new deadly animal viruses like H7N9 are still out there mutating with an eye on that 8 billion strong buffet of human hosts. With pandemics it's always a matter of when, not if, and a universal outbreak with more than just a few percent mortality wouldn't just threaten financial markets, but civilization itself as we know it. My new book, How to Survive a Pandemic, contains everything you need to help protect yourself and your family from the current threat, but also digs deeper into the roots of the problem and tackles the fundamental question, how can we stop the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place? If there's one thing I learned from my work on preventing and reversing chronic diseases that is whenever possible we should treat the cause. How to Survive a Pandemic will be out in physical copies this fall, but the audiobook and e-book versions are going to be fast tracked and out next month, May 2020. You can pre-order it at nutritionfacts.org slash covid19 and of course all proceeds I receive from the book will be donated to charity. I hope How to Survive a Pandemic is useful to protect you and your family, the community and this great, big, wonderful, happy human family.