david kimberlin: good morning. it is quite early out on the west coast where you are reading and appreciate you being with us this morning. the inflammatory cascade, the inflammatory system is very multi- faceted and certainly that disease and cortisol is you are mentioning, is part of the distress response and it makes perfect spot that you are thinking about that predict from, we are learning of mall a lot more about this. it is very rare pediatric condition that may or may not be night to the source coronavirus to covid disease print may or may not, or whether it is positively latent we don't yet as we learn more about it, we are understanding how certain parts of the inflammatory parts and interludes, that are sort of the foot soldiers if you will in our bodies, the response to different stimuli, how they can go deserts. taking away high in these conditions that we are saying in children. to my knowledge, cortisol is no part of that. at least as we understand it rhino pretty and is more and other interlace that

david kimberlin of the university of alabama birmingham. king questions by phone, email, twitter, facebook. brian, wisconsin, you are on with the doctor. caller: good morning, dr. kimberlin -- you have been very informative. my question relates directly to research, if any, for children who have developmental disabilities, either physical.al or i will hang up. physical. guest: i am assuming you mean research related to covid-19 or sars coronavirus 2 causing covid-19? to my knowledge there are not such studies run at this time. nih released info recently, this week, on a study they are going to be doing in children with asthma. my understanding, it is just from press release, i have not seen scientific details on this but my understanding is it is a study on going now, a longitudinal study or study overtime of this cohort of children with asthma. they will be watching for coronavirus infection in that population. that is not an intellectually impaired population. to my knowledge, though studies are not being done or done yet. host: if you are

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david kimberlin: >> hello everyone, sorry were a little late today. we didn't want things to get away of lunch raining so hard when you have a few moments are to each . i have an announcement on administration who have been wavering support for farmers today. secretary of agriculture selling purdue and senior advisor, announced the launch of the farmers to families to adopt program, $3 billion program just for farmers and to provide your most vulnerable communities. they're doing very good good work. now i want to focus on the coronavirus response . some have erroneously suggested that the trump in ministration throughout the administration. but the critics failed to note his it has been on paper, with replaced by two detailed robust pandemic responses reports commissioned by the trump administration so we change this one which i will and over to my assistant for these two pandemic spots plans. in 2018 the trump administration and action plan, one of the binders that i just handed to lindy, for the from august 13th, to the 16th of the trump administra

david kimberlin at the university of alabama discusses how the coronavirus is expected -- infecting childrenwatching c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. day,nday night on cumin journalist susanna kaelin discusses her book the great pretender, about 1973 experiment led by stanford psychologist david rosen hand, testing the legitimacy of psychiatric hospitals. >> because he had a wide influence on so much of what we contend with today, so much of the mental health crisis that we see today, was touched in some ways by this study. and there's a lot of public opinion about its institution were shaped by the study. so i think that in questioning it, we have to go back and question some of our assumptions and i hope that this gives us an opportunity to go back and reassess in a way to move forward because we can't move forward on a rotten foundation. to if this study wasn't up snuff, if it wasn't legitimate, we have to rethink some of the conclusions. >>