marc siegel and jason chaffetz.ometimes there are types in life that make us realize how lucky we are and how special our lives are. it's difficult as it may be to see this now, this is one of those times. america is different today than it was even last week. we are facing an incredibly contagious and dangerous virus moving across the world from one hot spot to another. as a result america is change how we operate. more often than not at a lower space. it's something we are not used to. we are americans. we move fast. we come and go as we please. and winier act with whomever or wherever we want. but not anymore it's a freakishly abnormal shutdown. i changed my daily routine just like many of you have. and i'm miserable like many of you probably are. march madness to the masters, from kindergarten to college, students being sent home. events canceled. airports limited, broadway gone dark. all the news is dispe is dis-sp. our determination and perseverance are hallmarks of who we are and from whence we came. we batte

marc siegel: breaking news on this. no one is talking about this. south korea has tried using zinc and chloriquim. remdesivir. and there are tests for it that are in the pipeline. genetic testing, all of this coming down the pipe in the next few weeks. judge jeanine: in addition to not just separating someone who tests positive for the virus. we have to treat them, too. i want them to be better. >> doctors have to be in the loop. if i tell you not to go to the hospital, you still call me and i'll tell you how severe your symptoms are. and maybe you do need the hospital. judge jeanine: dr. marc siegel. thanks. but stay here. our viewers have questions. we'll bring dr. marc siegel back at the end of the hour to answer your questions. so tweet some to me. next we are going to talk to fox news contribute tore jason chaffetz about the travel ban and some other responses by the administration to the coronavirus that i find interesting. guys, it's that time... and nothin's happenin'.

marc siegel who was among the first details about a critical drug is being looked at to fight the coronavirusiegel is a fox news contributor who is been on day and night and is joining us again tonight. first of all doctor siegel are you okay? how do you feel? >> i feel great actually i am out here in long island i'm having a great time and i'm good health. i'm exercising and i'm not sleeping enough, judge. judge jeanine: i know you're not sleeping enough that's why asked you. you talked about the hydroxyquinoline. what is it? >> it is hydroxyquinoline is used for malaria as a prophylaxis of malaria. also in our brightest rugged still the same drug. it's been taken together with zip through in this situation. judge jeanine: and is shown to have some success correct? >> there's a study out of france as a small study that showed 25 out of 30 patients and we need larger studies, but in the meantime it's going to be or used around the world anecdotally is going to be used in hospitals around the world who have those and are getting worse. they have to try some treatment. this treatment is pretty

marc siegel, 6 feet away from me here. social distancing onset.saphier, and amy compton-phillips in washington state. great to have all three of you. i want to go now to another -- if we can, another live question. we have a lot of technology working for us this hour. catherine barker, and mary in texas. i'm glad to see you, glad you're smiling. what is the question for the doctors? >> thanks for taking my question. i live in a small town, marion, texas. just right outside of san antonio. i've only heard of three cases right now. i'm wondering how the coronavirus is so much worse than the flu. >> harris: dr. siegel, would you like to take that? >> dr. siegel: is interesting, because she's in san antonio, texas. maybe there is more social distancing there to begin with. the weather i feel may play a role. the way it's worse than the flu is we don't have a vaccine for it. we don't have the powerful antiviral treatments. we are seeing a very large percentage of cases, especiallye and people with severe coillnesses like heart disease, like severe lung

marc siegel. an important hour ahead indeed. but first, my open. what a difference a week makes., it's real, and is already changing our lives. and guess what, that change is going to continue. we do not know when it will ends, but what we do know is we are facing a seemingly incomparable enemy virus inflicting sickness and in some cases death as it washes across the world. i sit here tonight in new york city, in new york state, which is of this moment rapidly closing in on 12000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. by far, the most of any state in the nation. but make no mistake, this virus is everywhere. and all of us need to be vigilant, and most of us need to stay in place. the numbers we have seen from china, south korea, italy, the united states suggested different mortality rates. china, it appears is back online. south korea seems like it is at the end as well. and italy, as you probably know is being devastated with 800 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. so how will the united states get through this? who will be lead on along the way? i don't have all of the answers,

marc siegel. let's start with this potential vaccine.is good news but we have to wait. >> it's a very, very promising vac seen. it's based on prior technology. it's genetic. it's advanced. it's modern. it hasn't been shown to be useful in animals. it's safe in animals. we haven't had preliminary data that know for sure it's going to work. but it's based on a prior vaccine that did work and nih is very, very excited about this vaccine and very hopeful that it will work. why would it take a year when we're about to start clinical trials? the answer is, because we always go slow before we give something to millions of people. you don't want to make the problem worse. you don't want the solution to be worse than the problem. thousands of people are infected clearly across the country but millions are going to get this vaccine. you want to make sure it's safe and it works. jillian: i think a lot of people have this weird feeling right now, they're a little confused, so much information is coming at you at lightning speed in the last week. all

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siegel this time around? go ahead, marc. >> dr. siegel: , mr.ith the death going over 600 today, the fewer that's coming out of this disturbs me the most. fear divides. you need unification and unified leadership to fight this. so i was really encouraged to see you reaching out to governors. governor cuomo, governor newsom, making liaisons that were there before. do you think that kind of movement where you are of a leader and other people work with you will help us to isolate the virus and the epicenters where they are? to separate those epicenters, test the people in the centers, and thereby squashed virus? >> president trump: i do. i do think, doctor, it's a very good thing. governor newsom and i have been getting red very great. we are sending the great hospital ship, as you know. we are doing very well with, i think, almost all the governors. for the most part it really has become something that we are dealing with almost every day. speaking to each other, whether it's conference calls, usually will have 50 governors that will call it the s

marc siegel. the idea of this can last in air for 3 hours.e two part question, is that unusual for viruses, if it is, are hospitals capable of handling the influx in the ers that are coming in. >> i will answer them separately. >> first question, that study was well done. they looked at this virus very carefully, it can hang in the air on respiratory drop let -- p lets or aerosol, and live on surfaces for days, you know what else did that sars, they are almost identical. that should be reassuring cars died out after 8 thousand cases, this is more -- more contagious, but there is nothing in the study that alarms me, still a respiratory drop let phenomenon. -- droplet phenomenon you will get did if someone sneezes on you. >> are hospitals capable. >> no, we're is why, that is a separate issue, don't go to doctor, we don't want to spread coughs and diseases, we advise people to not go to er, but thy go anyway, they have to take them in a separate area, you are with others who are coughing and sneezing while they wait for test results to come bac

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marc siegel to sort it out. thank you for joining us.examples of claims about the coronavirus that are banging around the air around the internet that are false or true or that you can verify for us. >> tucker i've been following pandemics a long time and every time there is an outbreak or a pandemic that comes, people are afraid appear they start clinging to certain myths that they hear or certain ideas that may not be true. the first one i will talk about is that millennials are hearing more likely higher risk of catching coronavirus. the health official was saying that. that is actually untrue but you know where that comes from? we see millennials, unfortunately not taking the precautions we want them to take. we need to sit down and have a heart to heart with them and not have adversarial issue. it has to be discussed. they have to understand social distancing. we have to talk to them about precautions. but another thing that is a myth unfortunately, we heard from china who were not going to get sick from this virus unless you were o

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marc siegel is with us this hour. dr. siegel, i mean, how realistic is it to ask people from other parts of the country to come help? is there any danger in that? >> dr. siegel: well, there's an issue of state licensure, but i actually like the sentiment a lot, melissa. i want to give you an overall picture, here. one of the questions he was asked was about upstate new york, and clearly we need help here in new york from our upstate hospital system right now. i think that's a very good idea that was briefly mentioned. i think one of the things we have to do in new york right now, in new york city, is to figure out how to triage better. if you consider that we have 3,000 beds opening up in the javits center, a 1000-bed navy ship off the shore now, and a field hospital being built in central park, we have to figure out how to get people out of the way of those who are most sick with covid-19. so that they can have the icu beds and they can have the ventilators. the governor also talked about the ventilator situation. i want

marc siegel. well, dr. siegel, what do you make. >> good morning, steve.teve, actually, you know, there is too much mathematical modeling going on. worse case scenario. spreading dread and fear and panic. michael left the nobel prize winner is definitely right about that point. all of these projections from john hopkins and elsewhere are based on numbers they don't really know. is he looking at china and saying wait a minute, there was a slowdown here. there was a control that went on here. whether it's because the virus didn't sustain its spread or because public health measures worked. both are optimistic ideas. and we might, in fact, see the same thing here. i think it's a way for people to remember that as we prepare, as we become vigilant. as we, do social distancing it may actually work. as the months get warmer that we see less of this virus. that would be very happy news. i wouldn't assume that's true. but it certainly should be something we're thinking about. steve: that's right. also, there is a new study that was prepared by oxford university al

marc siegel, dr.icole saphier and country music star john rich who has made the decision to pay everybody who works for him even though they are not working. brian: yeah. it's pretty tremendous. you just know these small business us if they are forced to do that some of them will have to shutter. that's why the washington help has got to come right away and got to come to the small business and it better not be going to the pockets of those coos around the country. steve: they have to find a way to suffocate the pandemic without suffocating the economy. brian: yeah. that's true. we will talk about that more over the next two hours and 57 minutes. today negotiations are to begin on capitol hill. over the 1 trillion-dollar rescue deal and this crushing outbreak. ainsley: the white house is also working hand in hand with the fda for a brea break through treatment. steve: griff jenkins joins us from washington with where it stands right now. republicans, 200 plus page idea has been floating around and tod

marc siegel. thank you, gentlemen, for sharing your knowledge with us today.c. has opened up a pop-up shop for virus supplies. prevention kits filled with masks, surgical gloves and sanitizer. they sell for 20 to 30 bucks each. also handing out information sheets from the cdc. here she is. >> i think it's good that we are like a local hub here in d.c. where people can get information and resources because when you see something like thousands of people are dying because of one thing, you are like it's going to raise questions on like will that affect me and if it does, what can you do to help myself? >> bill: she has stocked up on masks after doctored diagnosed her father with cancer so she has a big supply. washington, d.c. president trump visiting tennessee a few hours ago, only days after tornadoes killed at least 24 people there. talked to the governor bill lee who was with the president today as he toured some of the hardest hit areas. he is live in a moment. ♪ when managing diabetes you can't always stop for a fingerstick. with the freestyle libre 14 day

marc siegel. stuart varney on the rise this week of the stock market and what we can expect especially as the house is about to pass that monster rescue bill. and senator ted cruz, he had a couple of statements where he wants the president to use the defense production act. sounded a little like governor cuomo. now that he is out of quarantine, how does he feel about how america is handling it to date as texas declares a state of emergency. so that's a little bit about what's coming up over the next three hours, ainsley. ainsley: yeah, brian. as this is spreading into pockets of the united states. the president and the white house has identified certain hot spots, louisiana is now getting hit hard. you have chicago is getting hard as well as detroit. and so good news is there are more tests out there and now they have these self-tests that you can take. they are not as invasive. you don't have to go to a doctor to do it. so it only involves you. so you don't have to worry about the gloves and that

marc siegel is back to answer your questions. here. >> pete, good to see you again. pete: get to the questions good ones in here. this is from robert. i have been sick since monday and if the first thought it was just the flu. fever, cough and tightness of chest. i think i'm getting better. how long after these symptoms subside should i stay quarantined? great question. >> good question. we don't know what he has. he should be in touch with his doctor. his doctor should weigh in on whether they think it's coronavirus or not. classic symptoms are fever, shortness of breath and cough and productive cough. and with a high fever being very characteristic. i would want to know whether this person has coronavirus or not and maybe they could get tested now that we are starting to roll out more test. now, if they have coronavirus, if he has coronavirus, he should certainly be out of circulation for a couple of weeks, that's for sure. minimum. and then he may test negative. so i can't tell you with 100 percent, pete, use the test and when

let's bring in marc siegel fox news medical contributor. dr. , so many people have been talking about -- you know, we have heard from the federal government that the tests are there we're going to have millions available. and, yet, fast forward to today, it's almost impossible to get a test. >> extremely difficult and unfortunate situation. especially when you consider, steve, that i'm telling people not to go to the hospital with these symptoms. when they call me and say i have a cough, shortness of breath or a high fever, which is are the drastic symptoms i say don't come see me. my hospital doesn't want doctors to be expolicies to this either. if they go to the hospital. we have to put patients in special areas where they may contact coronavirus from somebody else. steve: take up a bed that might be needed for somebody later. >> disgraceful situation. south korea is testing 20,000 people a day. steve: in parking lots. >> cdc admits only tested 11,000 people since this whole thing began. if i could test everybody, i could calm fears. brian, yo

marc siegel. great to have you with us.et's start with azar saying there have always been plenty of test kits and that's just a fiction in the minds of some. >> i wouldn't put it that way. i'm not going to disagree with the secretary whom i know well. i think it's more the issue of how long it takes to get a result. if i have a patient and i want at result. i may have to mail it up to albany and it may take two or three days. the issue is availability. how near a proximity where i am when i want it and how fast the turnaround is. lou: we haven't seen a large testing of people who think they have had it. most local jurisdictions haven't had the ability to test. that's being corrected now. but the fact is, we have been flying somewhat blind for some time because there hasn't been a wide dispersal of testing kits or a coordinated reporting of those tests which is a bizarre thing to me. secretary azar is a good fellow. but this is not the time for the nonsense with the language. we need to be forthright. and particularly those

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marc siegel. he is here in the building with us. dr.birx talking about the millennials really hold the key to this because they think they are invincible when it comes to this. now the cdc says 40% of sick patients in the hospital are people between the ages of 20 and 54. do you think that's going to slow them down? >> no. i wish it would. i hope we can do that this morning. that's absolutely what we are finding in the u.s. right now in hot spot areas including new york here where not all the people that are very sick and on ventilators are actually 70 or 80 years old which is what we thought coming out of wuhan. our perception is changing. i don't think the disease is, but i think the sense who is at risk is expanding. brian: right. so that's big. so, if you are under 65. you are very susceptible, despite what earlier reports may be had indicated. let's go to the question. susan has the first one for you, dr. siegel. she says i have had a cold and flu symptoms for more than a week. i have had no shortness of breath. can i have the coro

marc siegel. thank you so much for coming on tonight. let me ask you a hypothetical question, would you be shocked to learn that the federal government has delivered some couple of thousand respirators -- ventilators, rather, the breathing machine so desperately need and they have not been deployed to hospitals, what would that mean if true? >> that would be very disturbing and very shocking and i happen to know from hhs that they've delivered 4400 ventilators over the last few days and they have supposedly delivered or are about to deliver hundreds of thousands of n95 respirator mask letter so badly needed and they need to get into the right hands because of what rick leventhal was just saying, patients not in the proper unit, all of this needs to be addressed. >> tucker: how would you assess the situation right now we new york city hospitals? >> i think the hospitals are overwhelmed by not just covid-19 patients but by a lot of nervous worried patients that are flocking to emergency rooms and make triage very difficult, makes it hard t

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marc siegel has been scrambled to help us out. the president handled one thing that's affecting all of us that is the scramble to get stuff. yesterday he said i want to meet the ceos of target, whole foods, high v. general mills, cisco, costco and say listen, show me can you replenish the stores. he said yes. i'm going to tell the american people go easy. we will be able to deliver the food. it's not a situation where you have a hurricane coming and the food is in short supply and you won't be able to get gas. nicole: talk more about that later on i do appreciate how president trump is utilizing social media to talk to the american people. we don't have to wait for a big press conference. steve: dr. saphier the key is right now as people get up, things are changing but at the same time there is strategy behind it. this is an extreme social distancing essentially experiment to see because the more we stop doing the everyday things, the more we are less likely continue to perfect somebody. nicole: social distancing is not a new conc

there are some and for details now, we go to marc siegel who joins us. thank you so much for coming on. so where are we in the development of effective treatments? >> there's a drug i'm going to talk about which is a drug that was approved for hiv, and it is actually a very exciting drug that's been used in ten patients around the country. because you know what it does? it decreases the inflammation we are seeing when we have a reaction to covid-19. in other words, people out there should no it's not the virus itself that is calling this pneumonia. is just like what it sounds, a storm of immune cells. this blocks that in at the same time revving up your own regular remove response and it looks very promising at keeping people off of ventilators or if they're on ventilators, getting them off them off ventilators by decreasing this inflammation. there's also another drug, an older drug that's been proven to be used for that and that we used to fight asthma in severe cases. that's being used together with a blood thinner, so again to decrease this inflammat

marc siegel joining us tonight for answers and doctor, the giver coming on. a very big curve, 70% of fatalities and what you think that is. >> first of all, but let me talk about italy, we have 40,000 cases and 3400 deaths and disturbing everyone because that's a large percentage of deaths. it likely, not the percentage here. yet 60% of the cases in italy are men and 70% of the deaths, here in new york city were giving you an example 5,000 cases, 60% men. why would that be? here's an interesting idea. studying genomics last year, it showed the x chromosome is a lot that gives you immunological response and your immune system is tied to the x chromosome. who has x chromosome? woman, they have better immune systems, stronger immune systems than men and there's a lot of theories as to why and are they exposed to germs earlier on going through childbirth? and a lot of the things factor in and another thing is, men are more likely to be smokers and drink alcohol then women and i will tell you right now, i'm concerned about cigarettes and vaping in the situation. i

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fox medical contributor marc siegel describes other advances in the last few days.hank heaven there have been some. doctor, thank you for coming on. >> we have good news to report which we badly need. first of all, research out of johns hopkins have been lookingy steadily, geneticist, they have determined so far it is stable. you know what that means? it means that vaccines in the works are likely to work and cover it even if they come out a year from now. it's very good news that the vaccines look very promising. i talked to dr. tony fauci. it's the second piece of good news is that we are finally getting the rapid tests and antibody test done where you take a single drop of blood and you find antibodies to the virus that tell you if you have been exposed in the past and whether you have an active infection going on. labs all over the country are looking into this. in the united kingdom they are releasing a test that literally will give you results within 15 minutes. we can tell who is infected and who isn't infected. the third piece of good news is that in new yor

marc siegel. it took three weeks. yeah, the travel ban and the quarantine hadn't been done in decades. three weeks. now the money was signed, everything everybody wanted. he said that, you know, whatever is needed, we will make available. how many people die from a flu every year? compare it to the h1n1, which you are an expert on. compare and contrast how obama-biden responded to that, attacking more children versus this virus. >> they were not stepping up on to the plate on that virus. i can tell you from my own experience. in terms of this virus, president trump projected calm leadership in the midst of the coronavirus hysteria today. he traveled to the c.d.c. where flanked by the health leaders including h.h.s. secretary alex azar and the c.d.c. director and the noted biologist robert redfield who talked about coronavirus but far more serious current killer that disrupts our lives every year. flowknown as influenza. this is a bad season due to preliminary strains. get this, it has infected 39 to 42 million people

marc siegel has been on this story with us from the very start. he joins us tonight for an update. doctor, thank you so much for coming on. give us your assessment as of right now, where are we in the spread of the disease? >> tucker, it is starting to spread more in the united states and communities here, starting to see more cases. imagine six deaths. in south korea which has a very good health care system, they are testing a lot of people. they've got 33,000 negatives. many want to go. with her 4,000 cases now. i think i would say that in all my years of studying contagions, i've never seen this much fear and hysteria. i've never seen this contagious a virus and i've never seen such a political football where despite such a great public health response, rising to the occasion at least here in the united states, you sent me tenant nebraska. i've never seen a better group than the national quarantine center. professional, unafraid, in their everyday with patients. risking their own safety perhaps. outfitting properly, teaching the rest of the country, starting an antiviral drug an

marc siegel has been with us and covering coronavirus from day one. he joins us tonight.tor, thank you for coming on. where are we as of tonight in the spread of this? >> we don't know because what you said. we don't know how many cases we have. we suspect thousands, but technically we only have confirmed a little over 1100. in south korea, they are testing 20,000 people a day. they know exactly how many cases they have and they are busy giving them giving different antiviral they are trying these drugs and starting to slow the spread. that's what we should be doing. you know this, tucker. i'm going around to every lab that supposedly has b this. i have the medium to keep the k swabs in. guess what i do not have. nobody seems to have the reagents to run the test. if i have a patient,ms and thats the key thing because i get all these calls are they long but somebody says i have a cough, shortness of breath, fever. i have to have a certain i have to have a certain criteria for even the new york state lab or any lab to want to test this. i need to meet a certain criteria but

doctor marc siegel set a clinician will be able to spot it. you have the same level of faith?again if the symptoms are not that unique, then it is tricky to just spot it on a part with all the other respiratory infections coming around. the point that it's woefully unprepared for what ended new disease does emerged we have the tools to detect it and snuff it out right away? kennedy: do we? >> we need more. we need to think back is not just a u.s. issue it's a global issue. not most the cases are not in the u.s. at the moment. you can't just think it's another country's problem to deal with diseases. kennedy: look at the one flight attendant who threw through lax and now people there are kind of panicked about the whole situation. you've been on planes, you have coworkers who research in china and other parts of asia and all over the globe. they are flying constantly. and you said we are living and the pandemic aid what is that mean? >> were living in a new pandemic era there are more of these irises that are pandemic potentially sars, mers, cova 19 there's more of them. they'r

marc siegel has been on the road for us for days on the story from the very beginning, and he joins usctor, thanks so much for coming on. give us the latest, if you would. two strains of the virus, what does that mean? >> chinese scientists have discovered a so-called l strain and a letter s strain. people out there need to know this kind of virus is unstable. it's changing all the time. it's a single strand and always having genetic changes. but these are subtypes, kind of like the flu, how you have different strains of the flu around. we are seeing at least two different strains of the coronavirus paper that in itself is not the problem, but will it change more? will it change so much that the vaccine we make doesn't fit it? i think the answer to that is no. i think we can get a vaccine to fit all of these strains as long as we track them. the question is, is one strain more severe than the other? the l strain seems to be more severe, and that was causing more trouble in china at the beginning. we need to figure out which strain is the one that is really emerging here in the united s

fox medical contribute or marc siegel joins us to react to that after practicing medicine in new yorkity for many, many years. we are happy to have you, doctor. we were asked not to reveal the identities of those two nurses but we have confirmed they are nurses practicing in new york. what do you make of that? >> i think we are in a situation here where we have almost half the cases in the united states in new york. over 45,000 in the state. the city a predominant amount. i don't think hospitals are ready for this. i think they are overwhelmed. i think they have had to make makeshift awards and transfer patients around. i don't think there are proper precautions in a lot of places, that they don't have a negative ventilation they need, and i think people on the front lines, doctors and nurses, are in harm's way, to some extent, and it's a very, very frightening situation. we are also hearing about mobilizing other specialties that haven't been on the front lines in a while, graduating medical students early to get them to help out, and bringing in all sorts of attending physicians who

marc siegel is a fox medical contributor. he has been following the virus on this program on the very beginning of january. he joins us tonight with an update on the latest. dr. siegel, thanks so much for joining us. where are we don't in this epidemic? >> well tucker, as you just said we have moved past the time of trying to individualize cases and separate them out and we are well aware that this virus is spreading throughout communities around the world. and we are using a technique now called cacooning where we identify people who are most at risk, the elderly, the severely ill who really can die from this virus because a pretty large percentage of them have died from it. and we are trying to limit the spread through communities. that's why you are seeing what is happening in italy right now where the whole country is under a kind of quarantine, where people can't go out at night. where they can't go to sporting events. the purpose of that is toy limit the spread of virus. guess what? that's a very primitive attempt that

joining us tonight on the coronavirus pandemic, fox news medical correspondent marc siegel.u.s. attorney andy mccarthy. former white house political director ed rollins. gordon chang on what appears to be a massive disinformation campaign launched by the chinese in this country trying to control our language. we'll take that up and much more at the top of the hour. you don't want to miss it. thanks, liz. >> well we won't miss it. great to see you, lou dobbs there. next up, coronavirus fears at the border. border authorities warn hundreds are coming in from outbreak zones, outbreak hot spots around the world. we have the numbers. dr. anthony fauci. on the white house coronavirus task force. i said the president did not stop inbound travel from china. we would be a lot worse off. the story next. ♪ ♪ you work hard for your money. stretched days for it. ♪ ♪ juggled life for it. ♪ ♪ took charge for it. ♪ ♪ so care for it. look after it. invest with the expertise of j.p. morgan, either with an advisor or online, through chase. after all, it's yours. chase. make more of what's your

marc siegel with us right now.r, this gap between certain countries and the alarming rate and the increase in italy, i guess can't owe it exclusively to the older population there, but it is continuing to is accelerate there. what do you make of it? >> i think you hit one of the things we think. it is mostly males, they are 70%. a lot are smokers. a lot are more elderly, a lot have underlying conditions. we learned a lot about the virus, neil, it can unfortunately get you sick if you're younger and have no underlying conditions. the vast majority are older with other etiologies. smoking and risk factors like drinking alcohol there is somewhat of an increased response to it in italy, the health care system there, but it is a bit spotty. the countries with more organized, sustained across the across the board response like south korea, like singapore, like hong kong have had a better effect. neil: do you make anything of this so-called two-month arc people are alluding to? two months ago china was epicenter of this,