for a dedicated facility for patients showing symptoms of infections that are especially contagious and lethal. this brand-new national quarantine center is now monitoring 12 americans evacuated from china. with shortages in china of medical supplies and concerns about the worldwide supply of drugs, the cdc has already loaded up on vital items such as medicines, ivs, vaccines and ventilators. our "60 minutes" team visited one of the strategic national stockpiles at a secret location during the zika outbreak. in 2016, health officials struggled to get the word out the women that zika infection during pregnancy could cause babies to be born with severe brain damage. this time tech companies and the world health organization are collaborating to put reputable health resources as the top search results for coronavirus in an effort to filter out misinformation. >> we're seeing a lot of

coronavirus methodology. >> reporter: when china's lack of transparency may have cost lives. she says that example is shaping how officials are sharing information about the coronavirus. >> one of the most important lessons in any public health situation is communicate. people crave information. it, someone else will. >> reporter: dr. gerberding, who now works at pharmaceutical giant merck says while public health experts look to high-tech solutions in the lab to fight the coronavirus, they've also learned that protecting the public starts with a low tech approach. >> we have disease detectives who are going out and interviewing patients, interviewing their contacts, really trying to tease out clue by clue how do they get exposed and how fast is it spreading. >> and there have been a lot of lessons learned, right, from sars and zika andh1n1.

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♪all strength, we ain't stoppin' believe me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait, we're taking everything we wanted we can do it♪ ♪all strength, no sweat if you suffer from migraines, you are not alone. 40 million americans experience the searing pain of migraines. doctors don't know what causes them. there is no diagnosis, and there is no known cure. and limited funding to find one. susan spencer on the case. ♪

>> reporter: her paintings are bright, often arresting. wow. the colors are so brilliant. >> thank you. >> reporter: but the source of those intense colors is intense pain. >> the first thing i feel is pressure in my temples. almost like my head is getting squeezed in. >> reporter: priya has suffered chronic migraine attack most of her life. five years ago, the cincinnati artist began trying to paint them. how do you paint a migraine? >> when i close my eyes, i feel this imagery kind of. it starts around the top, and it sort of floats down. and it's a symphony of colors. >> reporter: but don't be fooled by that peaceful description. so are you painting in the middle of the migraine? >> it depends how functional i

am and how painful it is. >> reporter: so sometimes you paint during the migraine? >> yes. >> reporter: sometimes it's overwhelming and you paint what you remember? >> yes. >> i love all your work. it's beautiful. >> thank you. >> reporter: and it's most overwhelming priya has endured 25 attacks in a single month. >> the headache is the dominant symptom. it is so dominating that it crushes you. and you're unable to process or think or do anything at all. and it affects my vision. sometimes it gets blurry, it affects your stomach. >> how does anybody live with this? >> what choice do you have? here is my spray. >> reporter: she never leaves home without a purse full of medication. it doesn't stop the pain, but can reduce the severity and duration of the attack. so would you give yourself an injection? >> yes. >> reporter: inside the grocery store? >> i've done that. i've gone to the rest room and given myself an injection. >> i think when people hear the

word migraine, they think a really, really bad headache. how accurate is that? >> it's pretty inaccurate. it's a headache and it's usually really bad, but it also has light sensitivity, nausea, sound sensitivity, smell sensitivity, brain fog, dizziness, and a host of other symptoms that are often attached to it. >> reporter: though the cause is unclear, migraine is a serious neurological disease that often runs in families, says dr. william young, a neurologist and headache specialist at thomas jefferson university hospital in philadelphia. and this can last for how long? >> well, have i patients who never get rid of their migraine. >> reporter: come on. >> every single day and every moment of every day. >> reporter: fortunately, that's rare. the disease, unfortunately, is not. >> about 40 million americans have migraine, a billion people

in the world. >> a billion people in the world? >> a billion people in the world. >> reporter: that's about one in seven, living with what's ranked as the second most debilitating disease on the planet, right after back pain. just how debilitating? well, watch what happened to this tv reporter in 2011. >> well, a very, very heavy -- we had a very -- >> everybody was sure that she had had a major stroke. >> it almost seems like she is speaking in tongues. >> exactly, yes. >> reporter: and that's migraine? >> the most commonplace is in the vision part of the brain. but in her case, it was in the language part of the brain. >> the past couple of months it has gotten worse. >> reporter: a new class of drugs can reduce the number of attacks. and hand-held electrical devices to block pain can help some patients. but there is no cure, and often no real diagnosis.

typically you can't see a migraine on a brain scan. >> migraine is still a radically undertreated disorder. >> reporter: we met medical historian katherine foxhall in a new york city bookstore. her recent book traces the history of the disease. so when is the first reported instance of someone having a migraine? >> migraine is a disease that we can really trace back for thousands of years. >> reporter: over the centuries she says it's been treated with everything from wrapping the patient's head with ground up earth worms to bloodletting. as for why we're not much better at treating it today -- >> one of the problems we have at the moment with migraine is really that it's not taken that seriously. >> reporter: foxhall thinks that's largely because migraine affects three times as many women as men. >> it's often seen as an excuse. it's seen as a disorder of women, of, you know, women who can't really cope with modern life or who are too stressed.

>> if this were men, we wouldn't be in the same situation? >> there is no way that the second most disabling disease in the world would get this little attention if it was happening to men principally. >> reporter: dr. young heads up miles for migraine, which hosts running events. >> don't let anybody ever say that it's just a headache. >> reporter: aimed at raising awareness. >> if society tells you it's not valid to have migraine headache, that you shouldn't be disabled, that it's there because you're weak, you are not going to be a good advocate for yourself when it comes to getting treatment. >> reporter: even though it's that common, people are uncomfortable admitting it? >> right. so they hide it. they don't seek help. they don't talk about it because they know how little sympathy they're going get if they say, you know, they need to miss work. >> reporter: that stigma, he says, has a dramatic effect on research. the national institutes of health budget for arthritis, for

example, is about ten times that for migraine, though the two have a comparable impact on society. >> if migraine was treated fairly by nih, it would get $240 million worth of research. it gets about 20. >> we obviously have limited funds. and so we have to be really careful how we spread them across the different diseases that we're responsible for. >> reporter: linda porter is an nih director in the national institute of neurological disorders and stroke. she says funding for migraine research is on the rise. >> it's a slow process. so we've gone in 2015 from about $22 million a year commitment, and now we're getting up into the high 30s over a small number of years. >> reporter: is that satisfactory as far as you're concerned? >> you know, if, you know, the minimum wage goes from $6 to

$6.3$6 $6.50, no, it's not satisfactory. it's shamefully poor. >> reporter: do you feel like this is getting enough attention? >> i feel like it's getting enough attention. i think will the is a need for more funding in the area because there are some critical gaps. >> reporter: gaps she blames in part on a shortage of migraine researchers and the difficulty of treating people whose symptoms vary so widely. so headaches don't affect people all the same way. >> reporter: so this is hard? >> it is hard. it's not an easy equation of how i treat this patient to make them feel better. because it's not a one size fits all. >> reporter: small comfort to people like priya rama. she says the impact of migraine on her life is so great, she'd even give up painting. if it also meant giving up pain. if i told you that tomorrow there is a cure, you know, you

take this little pill once a month and you'll never have another migraine. >> i would do it. am i going to stop seeing these visions and not have anything to paint? maybe. but if

nascar hero ryan newman was released from a florida hospital two days after a frightening crash on the final lap of the daytona 500. now newman was on his way to the checkered flag when a tap from behind sent his car spinning into the wall and then airborne. it took emergency teams 20 minutes to get him out of the wreck. it has some people asking how

could anyone survive such a crash? manuel bojorquez in daytona went looking for answers. >> there are so many areas on this car, not many you can look at that safety hasn't been thought of. >> reporter: andy petri has lived and breathed racing since 1981. >> everywhere you can see where a car could possibly hit is protected. >> reporter: yesterday he showed us a series of features nascar has installed over several decades that he believes helped keep ryan newman alive at daytona, from padded doors -- >> this is a crush zone. it absorbs energy when something hits the side. >> reporter: to window nets. >> if anything happens in the crash, it keeps the arms and things from coming out. >> reporter: to stiffer carbon fiber seats. >> it can withstand a lot of impact. >> crash into the wall, into the air goes newman. >> as spectacular as it was, we still expect our drivers to be able to get out and shake it off. >> reporter: petri was the crew

chief for the late racing legend dale earnhardt sr. in the '90s. his death on the same daytona track sparked a safety revolution, requiring all drivers to use an upgraded seat belt and harness system. >> when you have an impact, it keeps your head from overtraveling and causing bigger injuries. >> reporter: drivers must also wear fire retardant racing suits, and new more crash absorbent walls have replaced concrete around the perimeter of nearly every track. >> if you think about it, race 200 miles an hour side by side, you can flip up in the air and 99 times out of 100, these guys are getting out of the car and walking away. this time it didn't happen. >> reporter: petri's c helped build a generatio generaf sports car that will be used by every driver starting next february. but local sports columnist told me he believes speed restrictions on the race at daytona keep drivers clustered too close together and t t could re in a problem. >> and that is the "cbs overnight news" for this

thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm errol ba ett. it's thursday, february 20th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news". fight night. the gloves come off at the ninth democratic presidential debate as former new york city mayor michael bloomberg joins the fray and takes some hits. deadly shootings. two attacks in germany leave nearly a dozen dead. where the victims are targeted. jail break busted. investigators stop an elaborate scheme to get guns and weapons scheme to get guns and weapons into the hands of inmates. captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york.