We have 47 cases and eight deaths as a five this afternoon.

It's a weekend.

These numbers might be low.

People are staying home for a couple of days, see if they get any better.

So at this point, I think we have to believe this is respiratory, maybe fall mites to What's that for?

Mites?

Uh, it refers to transmission from surfaces.

The average person touches their face two or 3000 times a day, two or 3000 times a day, 3 to 5 times every waking minute.

In between.

We're touching door knobs, water fountains, elevator buttons and each other.

Those things become full nights.

Is this something we wanna release?

The press, Respiratory in for Mike?

And how's the public gonna react to that?

Hard to say, A plastic shark in a movie will keep people from getting in the ocean.

But a warning on the side of a pack of cigarettes.

We're gonna need to walk the government through this before we start to freak everybody out.

I mean, we can't even tell people right now what they should be afraid of.

We tried that with swine flu and all we did was get healthy people scared.

It's the biggest shopping weekend of the year.

I think we need to consider closing schools down and who stays home with the kids, People that work at stores, government workers, people that work at hospitals.

When will we know what this is?

What causes it, what cures it?

Things that keep people calm?

What we need to determine is this.

For every person who got sick, how many other people are they likely to infect?

So for seasonal flu, that's usually about one smallpox.

On the other hand, it's over three.

Now.

Before we had a vaccine, polio spread it a rate between four and six.

Now wait.

Call that number.

They are not R stands for the reproductive rate of the virus.

Any ideas?

What that might be for this?

How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors.

The incubation period, how long a person is contagious.

Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms.

We need to know that, too, and we need to know how big the population of people susceptible to the virus might be.

So far, that appears to be everyone with hands, a mouth and a nose once we know they are not, will be able to get a handle on the scale of the epidemic.

So it's an epidemic now.

An epidemic of what?

We send samples to the CDC in 72 hours.

We'll know what it is for.

Lucky.

Clearly, we're not lucky Way Young woman in Minnesota recently traveled to China.

Son also died as a warning.

87 cases, 15 deaths.