Califf

Dr. Califf stands as a pivotal veterinary pathologist thrust into White House crisis corridors, partnering with Dr. Bedrosien to alert Chief of Staff Leo McGarry to a Nebraska herd's presumptive mad cow outbreak. He unpacks the downer cow's staggering neurological collapse—head tremors, dragging gait—insisting on UK confirmation before escalation. Worst-case visions erupt: national emergency sirens, class-one recalls gutting beef supply chains. He lays bare the testing chasm, 12,000 cattle probed amid 40 million grazing free, forging Leo's path to presidential confrontation with this lurking agro-economic apocalypse.