we are getting a lot of data in to better understand this virus, and the truth is, it's probably going to hang around with us for awhile but as it turns out, it's far less lethal than we had originally assumed. the center for evidence based medicine at oxford is giving it an infection fatality rate of .1 to .39% which is in the range of sort of a bad flu. and so the problem is we have very few people infected. we have a lot of asymptomatic or mild cases and infection that's readily transmissible at least in certain circumstances. so i think we are going to have to learn to live with it, we will have to learn to deal with it. as senator portman suggests, i believe there are ways to go ahead with our lives safely and practicing good hygiene, continuing to keep distance from people, sick people definitely need to stay home and we need to devote a lot of energy toward