james hamblin of the atlantic. and thank you for joining us this morning. be a disease of uncertainty. degree ofrite this uncertainty. -- can you expand on that? seeing isctors are that even among people who develop illness that is serious enough to bring them to the whoital, there are some fall off a cliff. there is a moment where they are doing pretty well. they don't feel well, but they are doing ok. suddenly they need emergency icu care, possibly intubation, become gravely ill. the question on a lot of doctors minds is what is pushing people to that tipping point. it also sometimes happens in middle-aged and young adults without these risk factors so i wanted to understand what exactly it was that was precipitating that fall. be this cascade of immune system signals that go gets us arive and it little in the weeds in terms of the immunology. there are people looking into targets that could intentionally predict and hopefully stop that fall from happening. host: what are the doctors telling you about potentially of what's happening there? it starts to sp

james hamblin of the atlantic. and thank you for joining us this morning.e a disease of uncertainty. degree ofrite this uncertainty. -- can you expand on that?

james hamblin. recent piece of his looks at why some people contract coronavirus and get more sick than others. that tooka briefing place yesterday at the state department with the secretary of state, mike pompeo, accusing china is spreading disinformation about the pandemic. here's a portion. [video clip] >> suffice it to say, when countries engage in disinformation, it creates risk. the chinese communist party tells us they want to be our partner and be transparent. we need partners that we can rely on that when they tell us something it's accurate and we don't think they are hiding anything. look, we still haven't gained access, the world hasn't gained access to the w iv virology institute there. we don't know precisely where the virus originated from. multiple labs are continuing to conduct what we are contagious passage -- pathogens inside china and we don't know if they are operating at a level of security to prevent this from happening again. remember, this is in the first time we have had a

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