dr bob arnot some medical doctor and a former chief medical correspondent at n.b.c. news is joining us now on skype from stowe in vermont thanks very much indeed for being on this so just give us an indication of how great the risks are to young people because it them up to this point the world generally seems to have been accepting that it is older people and people with existing conditions that are at risk but this seems to open it much wider. so interesting rob you know when you look at the death rate roughly 15 percent over 87 percent over 70 but if you look at the overall chase rate 25 percent are going to be younger people and those there's a brand new paper in pediatrics said just this morning indicating that 10 percent of those over the age of 60 maybe came from seriously ill and we read of course this tragic story yes banished football coach francisco garcia who died from chronic virus it just age 211 of the issues if i understand it is that the millennial is themselves are by nature as social individuals and therefore they're more likely to be in places whe

families who arnot getting paychecks come and that is where we are most focused. >> we saw some modeling out of the uk that basically concludes that to keep from overwhelming our systems, we might need to see these tyem of ex measures around school closures, working from home, for as much is 18 months, potentially on and off. what methods do you have to a very anxious public about sort of have to think about this, and about their personal sponsibility here? >> throughout history, generations have been tested at different times, we think about the great depression, and iiwor war and the greatest generation, and my message has moment. lly that this is this is a very difficult time, we know, for thousands of our families, and this is our moment to show how we can care for one another is is ou moment to show that amid all of the fear that we all share, that there is, ye common fear but also uncommon valor that we can show as we work together, th get through crisis, and will have to do it one day at a time. i don't know if it was going be if you weeks, or a few months or year tohalf as one pr

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now, to understand how likely this thing is to spread further, you need to know the term arnot. how likely a virus is to spread from one person to the next. the cdc says it is 2.2. for every person infected they will infect more than two people. by comparison the flu outbreak of 2009 had an r 0 of 1.46. that doesn't mean the virus is going to spread at that rate. it just means we need to work harder to contain it. the world health organization telling world leaders this is not a drill and no room for excuses. this is the time to pull out all the stops and technology may be able to help prevent future outbreaks. artificial intelligence is helping to get out ahead of epidemics by predicting the spread of illnesses. for more, i'm joined by jake ward. jake, like so many topics you and i discuss, this comes down to the intersection of the things we need and the things we demand. right? we demand or want a certain amount of privacy and freedom from control but, in fact, the data we have could help us get out in front of an epidemic like this. >> reporter: this is really top of mind fo

we >>locked b they did it later we're doing it early and if we look to them things arnot good in the world there are 244,000 confirmed cases the death toll in italy is now worse than it ever s in china, aly s more than 3,0 people who have died of coronarus in fact that was her just listeninto a medical expert in the north of italy saying th they can't even handle e their hospitals are overrun and as we've told you this whole week they're making decisions on who to treat and die therso overrun. so in italy now more people have died. nearly 300 more people than in china and in china, the popation is 20 times more. >>globally more than 10,000 people have died of coronavirus in the u s there are 14,000 people have tested positive and at least 205 people have lost their lives in california. 18 people have died so far and as we go throughout the morning we're going to be able to showyou some of the faces attached to the victims whicreally i think makes a huge difference is weust crunch numbers and numbers and numbers and once you see who the people you know and lroy 66 year-old father and

does have a condition that none of us knew about and cause them to have a disastrous outcome dr bob arnot is a medical doctor and former chief medical correspondent of n.b.c. news he told us a high infection rate among younger people also puts older generations at risk. when you look at the death rate roughly 15 percent over 87 percent over 70 but if you look at the overall case rate 25 percent are going to be younger people and those there's a brand new paper in pediatrics said just this morning indicating that 10 percent of those over the age of 60 maybe james comes seriously ill what's happening is that beyond those who are getting very seriously ill there all the who may not have his temper brooks's said no signs of disease at all and are silent carriers they get to completely prove that point but it appears to be there in the data so the silent carriers are tremendous risk to their parents and their grandparents as they make socially the main treads mission is going to be through the air so why we were telling people to wash their hands they were washed they were at subways and bars

>>if we have a large spike of cases, no american hospitals arnot going be able to handle it, it's nottage of hospital beds, but possibly a shortage of gloves respirator mask and for ople who develop pneumonia ventilators and a shortage of doctorand nurs if they become we did not consider a situation like this today. we thoughtabout vaccines we thought about their putin we never thought about respirators of being ur first. >>and only line of defense for health care workers. >>part of the problem the testing ebacle means people weren't diagnosed as quickly as they should have been an told isolate themselves and so the virus spread furth our failures on testing have really have put us at greaer risk of a much biger outbreak. then if we had actuly gotten testing right but there is reason for hope just in the pasweek nba games and other large events canceled its schools have closed and other social diancing measures. i think those are exactly the right things to be doing. what that does is reallyslows down the rate of spread of that infection. doctor john others recommended in addition hos