1. After listening to last week's podcasts focused on the early stages of the pandemic, what were your initial thoughts regarding the pandemic when you first heard about it? 2) When comparing to where we are now to where we were a couple of years ago. Why do you think the United States was not ready for the Coronavirus in 2020? 3) Based on the knowledge that you know now regarding the pandemic, what would you recommend that public health officials do differently?.