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Dr. Fauci, thank you so much for joining us on the daily social distancing show.

How are you?

I'm very well, thank you, very well.

You are an infectious diseases expert who has advised six presidents on everything from

SARS to Ebola to the HIV epidemic and Zika.

What makes coronavirus so different?

Well it's different because you know when people used to ask me over the years, what is

it that I most worry about with regard to emerging infectious diseases is a respiratory

born illness that easily spreads from person to person but that has a high degree of morbidity

and mortality.

And unfortunately that's the worst nightmare you could have is to have something like

that.

I mean there are other diseases Ebola was frightening but Ebola gets transmitted only

when you're in very close contact with a person who is very, very ill.

But this disease in some respects similar to influenza but in some respects very different.

It spreads very easily.

You can even spread it when you're not symptomatic.

So it's insidious and treacherous in that you could spread it easily.

The other part about it that's really so different from anything that we've ever faced

before is that if you look at the mortality of seasonal flu, the thing that you and I go

through every season, the mortality is about 0.1%.

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