and that is part of the problem here to talk about that i'm joined by professor stephen morse he's an epidemiologist at columbia university professor good to have you on the program what are we seeing happening here we we hear that the piece of new cases in china is slowing but everywhere else in the world we're talking about a ballooning of new cases. this is the 1st time we've really tried to contain a respiratory infection that passes from person to person so if you think of flu pandemics for example we had one in 2009 we've never really tried to prevent it from spreading and it's always been an interesting question whether that was possible it takes a tremendous amount of effort to do it it's really a herculean task in terms of the public health effort to identify cases and then trace their contacts so that we can separate them from people who are already an infected this does spread about as well as the flu maybe is somewhat better so they sickly it's a very similar situation and a few people who slip by they're not identified or they may not be very sick as most of these people

that would probably be the spring at the earliest probably 6 months to a year all right professor stephen morse joining us tonight from columbia university with the latest on the spread of the corona virus professor thank you thank you. and you can get more information about the coronavirus on our youtube channel or you can go to our web site www dot com now here's a look at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world egypt's former president hosni mubarak has died at the age of 91 he ruled egypt for 30 years and he was a key ally of the west who saw him as a guarantor of regional stability but to others mubarak was an autocratic tyrant he was ousted in the 2011 arab spring protests egypt has declared 3 days of mourning sweden's foreign ministry has summoned the chinese ambassador to stockholm to demand the release of bookseller given high a court in china sentenced mr d. a chinese born swedish citizen to 10 years in prison on charges of illegally sending intelligence abroad he owned a hong kong publishing house that sold books critical of china's leadership police in i