doctor asaf bitton has been talking about this very issue. he's with brigham and women's hospital in boston. he joins us now. dr. bitton, between washington and the states, are the ameperin le now being given enough guidance to induce them to dog? the right th >> i think that we're starting to be gven that guidance, but we really need to urgently increase the pace of coordination and of sringency in the response. the curve that you're talkingab t, the trajectories are not sustainable for our healthto systemanage. we do not have enough beds or or severe outbreak like this, so we have to stretch out the number of cases and prevent the number of cases from flooding the hospitals now. >> woodruff: just to clarify, we're not saying that people aren't going to get this virus. a lot of people wil get it. the goal is not to have the-- so many of them get it at the the capacityf our healthcarehelm system. is that right? >> correct. the issue really is about the speed in grawth ofses, of people that get it, and the severity of cases that would overwhel

joining us now from boston is asaf bitton who is a primary—care physician and researcher at the harvardh. thank you forjoining us. how effect is social or physical distancing in saving lives? social and physical distancing is one of the most effective tools we have right now to mitigate the spread of this pandemic. it's really a tool that when operating in a co—ordinated, aggressive fashion across the country, can save probably or reduce probably over 90% of cases. that is a huge figure. a question for you, how do you, in yourdaily question for you, how do you, in your daily life, go about the moment practising physical 01’ the moment practising physical or social distancing? well, it's a huge change. it's something fundamentally different from the life that we we re different from the life that we were used to, even a couple of weeks ago. at its base, what this means is keeping physical separation between you and people outside of your household. so that means when you go outside, you need to maintain at least two metres or six feet from other people. you don't sit on park benches, you