state, our next guest tested positive for covid-19 and is joining us via skype in quarantine, george santosing us. >> thank you, david. i am in recovery, it has been a long 8 days for me, i can't kate owait to get out. david: first symptoms. >> monday, a republica a -- rund body discomfort, it escalated and by wednesday, i had a 102.5 fever that lead me to call hot line that intrusione intold he , ambulance came picked me up, a rather quick process, they tested me, shipped me home. david: you first had breathing problems that bad. >> not to point i had to go on a respiratory, despite having acute bronchitis, i am 31, i championed it out pretty well be if was a rough couple nights with fever not going down, it was hard to stay sane to be honest. but, by friday evening, fever broke, and saturday morning a got confirmation of being cinco dseencovid-19 itself. david: do you know how you to got it. >> i believe, and i am not blaming anyone, i believe it was cpac, i was very exposed, i shook a lot of hands did a lot of interviews and campaigns, and a lot of meetings. i believe it. during my visit

george santos, republican candidate for a constituency on long island, congressional wanna-be, i hate to put it like that, candidate for congress, sorry, george, you are in quarantine and i'm having a go at you. that's a terrible thing. thank you for joining us. good stuff. dr. marc siegel with us. you were listening to all of that. the gentleman in quarantine has been deprived of his dogs. we have been on this all morning. >> i feel so badly after i said don't walk dogs. now we are doubling down on the problem. he seems very cheery. i think that's the main thing. he seems to understand that it's very important from the public health point of view and that it's limited in time. that's the whole key here. people have to understand what are we trying to do here. we are trying to decrease the spread of this virus so that it's exponential. once it starts to spread here, it spreads here. if we can just get the curve to be flatter, we can loosen some of these. the problem is there's some inconsistencies to it. younger people are violating this policy, especially on the coasts. i would ask p