i mildre people with cases. quarantine,go into are they supposed to do better? keep from passing anything on or getting anything? quarantine does mean something. we are following the president's guidelines. thate question would be the people who are dying as of today -- i know some people may have had this maybe three or people havego, the had it some time ago. the new people that are experiencing it, the new cases, i have heard that these new cases are cases that may have happened some weeks ago. it is declining. i want to know what is this about the quarantine? does it mean something for all of us? host: thanks for your observations. guest: the caller brings up a number of different issues. the first is, it's very, very anar that the disease from epidemiologic standpoint is really quite variable. ,he u.s. consists of 50 states the district of columbia, puerto rico, so it's not the same disease in every state. it's very clear that in new york , boston, detroit, a few areas in georgia, some in florida have had substantially more disease than other parts of the c