joipg me now mat tt bradley and jay steven morrison, director of global health policy center.d to see both of you. so steve, let me start with this now announcement from facebook that they're going to cancel a big software developer conference. it is close to where we're seeing this one case in california. good, presentative or at least cautionary move, do you think? >> it's certainly a sign of the direction that events are moving very, very rapidly right now. in this current situation, as the epidemic globalizes, we're in this period now where we're seeing accelerated spread and explosive outbreaks in places like italy, south korea, iran. but we now have this one case in california. we don't have a vaccine. we don't have antivooirlz or a cure and we are struggling to get effective tests. what are the measures we fall back on, the things that are being -- the decisions that are being taken right now are those that are social distancing. all of these events that involve kongsgations of large numbers of people are being postponed or suspended. business meetings, sports events, g