All right here we go. So what you said when you sat down was absolutely perfect that the

timing could not have been better. Well tell everybody what you do Michael.

Well thank you. I'm a for a black of a better term of medical

detective. I've spent my whole career tracking infectious diseases down trying to

stop them. Try to understand where they come from so we can make sure they don't

happen in the first place but most of all

trying to respond to situations just like this just like this just like this and

just out off the bat how serious is this is this something that we need to be terrified of or is this the of it in the sense that is just beginning. And so in terms of what hurt, pain, suffering, death is a-

happen so far is really just beginning.

This is going to unfold for months to come yet,

and that's I think what people don't quite yet understand.

What we saw in China, I'm convinced as our many of my colleagues as soon as they release all of these social distances, these mandated stay in homes, haven't left

their home in weeks and weeks kind of thing.

When they go back to work, they're on planes, trains, subways, buses, crowded spaces,

manufacturing plants, even China is going to come back again.

And so this really is acting like an influenza virus, something that transmits very, very

easily through the air.

We now have data to show that you're infectious before you even get sick and in some cases

quite highly infectious, just breathing is all that you need to do. So from this perspective, I can understand

why people would say, well wait a minute flu kills a lot more

itself every year than this does and already remind people this just a

beginning. Probably the best guess that we have right now on what limited data we

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