While appearing on MSNBC on December 4 to talk about infectious disease prevention under the upcoming Trump presidency, Hotez said “We have some big picture stuff coming down the pipe,” referring to avian flu, new strains of Covid, and other potential outbreaks. “All that’s going to come crashing down on January 21 on the Trump administration. We need a really really good team to be able to handle this.”

Ron Howard voice from Arrested Development:

“They did, in fact, not have a really, really good team. In fact, they had a worse team than the last time a pandemic started.”