ranit mishori.'s a professor of family mecine at georgetown and senior medical adviser for physicians for human rights. welcome back to the "newshour." thanks for taking the time to answer. people are hearing this 10 number from officials to limit gatherings. some people say we have in quarantining and some have tested negative. what is wrong with gathering with a bigger group this holiday? what do you say to them? dr. mishori: unfortunately the only way to prevent transmission of the virus is by limiting the number of peoplthyou interact 10 is sort of a random number people came up with, but the smalle part of it is that people are traveling in order to fnk up wiily members, and the travel is a problematic issue. you can bring disease from counties and states where the epidemic is raging. even if you don't have symptoms, a lot of people can be asymptomatic. you bring it to your small household or community, and it is enough to have one person who is infected to infect a whole host of others. the nu

ranit mishori.'s a professor of family medicine at georgetown inuniversity school of med and senior medical adviser for physicians for human rights.el dr. mishori,me back to the "newshour". thanks for taking the time to answer the questions. people are hearing the ten number from officials, limit the gatherings to ten people. people say we have been quarantining, etch some tested negatig . what's wrth gathering with a bigger group this holiday? what do you say plo those peo >> i think, unfortunately, there's the only way to prevent the transmissionf the virus is by limiting the number of people you interact with. ten is sort of a random number that people me up with, but the smaller the number, the better. part of it is that people aretr eling in order to link up with their family members, to see their friend, and the travel is a very problematic issue. you can brim disease fro counties an states where the epidemic is raging, etch if you don't have symptoms, and we know a lot of people can be asympt