that kind of big picture population way. Well, what had changed, especially in Massachusetts is that starting in 2012, fentanyl was making its way into the drug supply. And so people were often taking fentanyl without knowing it. That's still true today. And it's part of what's driving the opioid overdose deaths. So if there were two people, two people isn't a lot, but for him, he thought there's something important here. So he reached out to the CDC and said, you know, we have no way of knowing how many other people there are like this out there. You know, what about putting out a nationwide call for more cases? And they came back and said, you know, it's just two, it could be a coincidence, it could be amnestic shellfish poisoning. There's really not enough to go on here. So then he went to the Department of Public Health in Massachusetts, where the state epidemiologist, Aldi Maria said, wow, that's really interesting. If you find a few more cases, I'll put out a health alert in (15/37)
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