Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert laughter tonight america is closed. Plus stephen welcomes dr. Sanjay gupta. Featuring jon batiste and stay stephen you can stop now. Human. laughter piano riff one of the things that had to freak out wall street was and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york trumps body language. He had a rakish flair that can city, its Stephen Colbert only be described as stark terror. It wasnt so much deer in the headlights, as deer in the oval office. Aaahhh cheers and applause theme song playing stephen whoo whoo aaahhh whoo aaahhh whoo whoohoo aaahhh whoo oh, snap. No, dont follow me whoo aaahhh laughter whoo stephen ive had a little oh, my god too much of this stuff over here. Whoo oh, my goodness because it was a trump speech, oh, i should not be this tired hey, everybody words not do good. Fostce, he gee tripped up here. Thank you please, sit down i am confident that by laughter counting. And continuing to jon, good to see you. Jon yes take these tough measures stephen not very reassuring from a distance. Stephen joe, happy thursday. When the guy telling us to stay welcome to the late show. Calm about a respiratory virus loses his breath in the middle of a twosyllable word. as trump im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause jon huhoh, huhoh. piano riff im your presi. Dent. Stephen as you may have noticed, none of you are here right now. Only people in the audience give a shot of this only people in theaudience are some trumps oncamera remarks were a members of my staff. Hi, guys. Disaster, and his off camera cheering im going to sit down over here. Remarks a moment before the okay. Speech. Here is trumpo camera right before the speech unaware the piano riff how are you, jon . Jon im good. Camera was rolling. Stephen good. Yeah, me, too. Do you like the book being on the desk or not . Or would you rather have it jon how are you . Not be . Have it there, just in case. Maybe it looks better. Gives you something up here. Right . Does it matter . Stephen way to have the stephen im good. Oh, im very excited to be doing right priorities. This is like that famous a show tonight. Jon i actually dont know how i am. Churchill speech we shall fight them on the stephen what do you mean beaches. You dont know who you are . We shall fight them on the landing ground. Jon well, you know, the virus, i dont have symptoms. Stephen exactly. Do you like my hair slicked back jon which is the reason we maybe it loohed dont have an audience. Stephen because we dont know whats going on. Forward. Does it matter . Either way, im a smoke show there are two things to keep in mind you dont want to be part laughter of the hysteria. Jon hmm. Jon right. Stephen but you also want to stephen but the fun didnt stop there, because after he act with an abundance of finished, the cameras kept caution, over here. Rolling. Okay. Jon thats right. Stephen we dont know on this side of it. We kind of know how much hysteria we could produce if we wanted to. Jon right. laughter jon wow. Stephen over here, we dont know if this is a feather or a brick. Jon right. Stephen yeah. Wow, indeed. Stephen over here, around jon thats where were at. Stephen thats where the world, this seems to be a brick, so we went with brick. There you go. piano riff were at. Thats exactly right. Hows the show going so far . laughter that is not what you want to hear at the end of an important jon its moving. Its moving. Speech. Stephen let me explain and thats why i know theyre whats going on. Going to have a long, happy life all the new york city latenight together. To karen and jon shows were planning to go without audiences starting monday. We announced that last night, actually. Okaaaaaay. And that changed because, just a laughter few hours ago, we got somerisiee i give it a year, tops going without an audience starting tonight. piano riff this is absolutely true. Were just kind of winging it. This is rehearsal right now, uh, weve got to take a break, which might be a good thing, because in my mind, all of my but stick around. Jokes are perfect. When we come back, more of whatever this is. The only person that ever disagrees with me is the audience. Right . cheers and applause band playing cant disagree with me now, can you . laughter ha look, i just got a laugh laughter ive done a show without an audience before. Back before the late show started, we did a secret show in a small Michigan Town called monroe, michigan. There was so much scrutiny on our first show that we decided to get out of town and get the show out of the way by taking great parenting needs great allies. Over a Public Access program called only in monroe. Im sure you all saw it. 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Its the best thing to happen plus take an extra 10 off your to them all year mens style event purchase . piano riff plus take an extra 15 off . laughter plus get kohls cash get the look kohls. Charmin ultra soft its softer than ever. laughter jon get a sip in charmin ultra soft is softer than ever, stephen you know what i wathed today . So its harder to resist. Jon whats that . Stephen i watched steve allen, you know, the guy who okay, this is getting a little weird started all this. Enjoy the go with charmin. Jon yes, yes. Hashtag vacay. Sonoma . I want wine with lunch. Its 11am, cindy. Stephen steve allen started the original tonight show at the hudson theater down the street. After that, there was the steve allen show. Thanks, captain obvious. Bicaly everywhere. Hotels. Com. Be there. Do that. Get rewarded. He was playing piano while jack kerouak read selections from on the road. Thats what these shows used to be. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair®. Jon wow. Weve got the retinol that gives you results in one week. Stephen and can be again laughter thanks to coronavirus. Not just any retinol. Accelerated retinol sa. applause well, if all that news wasnt one week is all it takes. Unsettling enough, last night, neutrogena®. We also learned that tom hanks has the coronavirus. Hey coronavirus okay, yeah you can shut down italy, you can shut down south korea, you can destroy our economy, but keep your filthy nucleocapsid proteins off tom hanks the man is an american treasure this is like learning the liberty bell has herpes laughter it ends now it ends now laughter im being told it is not ending now. I have to keep doing the show okay, moving on. E. Jon forrest, come on, forrest. Stephen i think this is going pretty well. laughter do you guys think its going pretty well . cheers and applause jon yeah, yeah, i think so stephen now, i want you to forget cheering thats enough. piano riff i want you to forget the fact that i pay all those people. laughter now, even though tom hanks and his wife, rita wilson, both tested positive, they say they have mild symptoms and are doing fine. Hanks posted with poise, i might add, as hanx, always does, about how theyre handling the problem. Well, now, what to do next. We hanks will be tested and isolated as long as Public Safety requires. Not much more to it than a onedayatatime approach, no . Take care of yourselves. Hanx. Positive message, but a bummer of a sequel to catch me if you can. Jon wow. Wow. Stephen im guessing we would put a graphic up there that would say catch me if you can, at some point. In a real show, we would do that. This is rehearsal. Stephen this is rehearsal. But im thinking this is actually what we actually show people. Sure. Jon huhoh. Stephen theyre going to be really surprised when i walk out of the building in half an hour. laughter piano riff oh, sure, stephen, well tape the rehearsal. See ya, suckers jon wash that hand wash that hand hold on. Hold on. Stephen what am i thinking . What am i thinking . Jon got to be ready and stay vigilant. Stephen last night, donald trump preempted all programming to address a worried nation and remind them hes the thing they band playing band playing should really worry about. We will be suspending all stephen everybody, welcome travel from europe to the united back jon batiste and stay human, states for the next 30 days. Everybody give it up for the band right these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount there nedepartme ofcargo, but various so the speech was a disaster a disaster but today, trump got a doover Homeland Security official put in a televised meeting with it, the virus is here in the u. S. Irish leader leo varadkar the focus needs to be on taking action here, treating people and testing people. This seems to be pointless. Varadkar . The virus is already here. Its like in a horror movie, somebody hearing the killer is already inside the house and responding with, oh, no, i not the over varadkar better go lock all the doors. Irish leader varad car. Then ill just leave this axe on the bathroom sink as i take a shower. Bow before varadkar. La, la, la honey, is that you . Ill tell you all about it in come on in tonights episode of chair chat trump started by explaining that loo, loo im all soapy due to viral concerns, he and varadkar didnt shake hands. Loo, loo well, we didnt shake hands ive got my eyes closed, so i today, and we looked at each other, we said, what are we going to do . You know, sort of a weird cant read the script feeling. Is it over . Is the bit over . I think we went like this. Bits over. When wall street heard all trade at the same time we did this. Was being suspended, they freaked out. You know, i just got back from india, and i didnt shake any hands there, and it was very easy, because they go like this, and japan goes like this. They were ahead of the curve. Started to one hour later. Stephen its strange. Bowing like that in india or gaaah i dont know much about finance, japan is the respectful thing to but i do know the rule line go down, pants go brown. Do, but somehow when trump does okay . E. F. Hutton said that would listen. It, it seems like a hate crime. Ask your grandparents about that reference. Trump continued to insist he could never have seen this when e. F. Hutton talks, people listen. Could never have seen this thing thats right. I believe they are ashcan at this point. That everybody saw coming, so an hour after his speech, trump leapt on twitter to correct himself. Coming. What we did in europe, this was the time. China, a lot of it came from when you when you think of please remember, very important for all countries and what happened to europe, because it was very fast and very businesses to know that trade furious. Stephen as trump will in no way be affected by it was fast and furious. The 30day restriction on travel some might even say too fast, too furious. From europe. It started in asia but then, of the restriction stops people, course, we all saw the tokyo not goods. Drift. Do we know the fate to have the furious . Do we know that yet . as trump please remember, very important the fate of the furious . No, but we do know, as vin diesel says, its all about for all countries and businesses family. To know, nothing i say is true. Pay no attention to the man behind the bronzer. laughter hobbs and shaw. laughter laug piano riff s feny bter about never seen one of those movies. Trumps performance, because i should see all of them. I want to see all of those movies. Jon mmhmm. This morniri inaudible offstage stephen what . I want to see all of those movies, because i think to truly understand this country that i love, i need to see the most successful decology ever made. Because there have been 10 of them right . Ors this one the tenth. Nine will be the tenth . Because eight was actually the ninth because hobbs and shaw is cannon . Dont fight, just give me an answer. Is hobbs and shaw cannon . Yes. Stephen so thats the ninth. So the eighth is the ninth. The ninth is the tenth. But heres what im saying and dont give me a shot of chris. Give me a shot of chris right now. Damn it bob, can you move . Youre in the shot. Youre a cameraman how do you know that doesnt help jon aaahhh piano riff stephen i am telling you, what is happening right now is the future of this Television Show you think im not leaving in half an hour, youre crazy i think this is actually going im rather enjoying this right now. Are you having a good time . Yes. Stephen okay. Have you had any of this . laughter because i have, and ive got to tell you, i feel like a child again. piano riff making mud pies. Man, anythings possible. Jon yeah, thats right. 38 minutes. Stephen 38 minutes . Weve almost got a full show right here. Tom yeah stephen what do you think . Anything here . Can you use any of this . I can use some of it, sure stephen weve got 38 minutes not 38 minutes worth. Stephen no, how much do we need . Of the 38 minutes that ive talked so far, how much do we need . 14. laughter applause stephen weve got 14 minutes come on, theres 14 minutes in here how much are we burning now . This has to be a full minute of me asking you this. Its going to be cut. Its going to be cut. laughter piano riff stephen tom purcel and chris licht, everybody cheers and applause piano riff whoo whoo its a good thing trump seems so unworried about coronavirus, because a senior brazilian Government Official who visited maralago days ago and was in close proximity to donald trump and mike pence has tested positive for coronavirus. The white house says trump and pence had almost no interactions with the Brazilian Press secretary who tested positive for coronavirus after his maralago visit and do not require being tested at this time. Theres a big difference between almost no intersections and interactions. What do you mean, shes pregnant . I had almost no sex with her laughter well be right back with dr. Sanjay gupta band playing because i can. laughs make good choices. You make good choices. I am. Fiber is good for digestive health. Good choices never tasted so good. 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Stephen and youre a doctor, and you have a new podcast, called . Coronavirus fact vs. Fiction. Stephen okay, lets get into some of the fact versus fiction tonight. You talk on the podcast about the line between caution and panic. And thats certainly something weve talked a lot about here about, lets say, when to get rid of audiences, or how to do the show maybe without the staff in the building, so we try to keep people as safe as we can. Where is that line . Because that line seems to be kind of blurry right now. Yeah, and i think it feels different for different people, and it changes. Its changed a lot over the last two months. You know, we have been covering this story in great detail for some time. People now, i think, more than ever are really starting to pay attention. I dont think it ever should cross into panic, because panic doesnt serve any purposes, i think certainly from a medical standpoint. The medical establishment is having to prepare here. But i think the idea that people should be concerned enough to really start to do things with their own lives that can help protect them, i think is real. I mean, thats within all of us at this point. Stephen well, let me rephrase it slightly then. How worried should we be . I think for the majority of mething thats going to make them tremendously ill, this coronavirus. It might make them sick for a few days. Theyre likely to recover. Stephen and how does that manifest itself . Because ive heard that, for 80 of the people and correct my numbers here if you need to that 80 of the people, you will have nothing or something mild. Right. Stephen to manifest. But the 20 , it could be severe. What is that severity . When it does manifest itself, what is that . People will develop a pretty significant pneumonia. A lot of times, theyll develop inflammation in their lungs. You think of the lungs as sort of being soft sponges. When you get inflammation, they dont work as well, and it becomes harder to breathe. Initially, someone might have difficulty walking up a flight of stairs without getting short of breath. Stephen like running once stage the audience and coming terms of how your body i functioning. But ultimate it will get stephen what if youre in your mid50s and youre noticing changes in how your body is functioning all the time . Youre in good shape. Stephen thank you. I can tell. Stephen thats a doctor. Youre a doctor. A doctor just said im in good shape, honey. laughter i mean, there are certain populations of people i worry about. I tell you, stephen, i have been calling my parents every day. Theyre in their late 70s. They live in florida. It struck me, in the beginning of the conversations, the message was always 80 will be fine. And i thought, what if im in my late 70s and early 80s and nobody cares about me . So we have identified who the vulnerable population is here. It is elderly people and people who have preexisting conditions, like heart disease. For them, their immune system wont be able to fight this virus as well, so the lungs wont be able to stay as pliable. And they can eventually develop what is called respiratory distress and need to be on a breathing machine. They need to be supported while sng irealimes t now,im taing to you, hospitals, sometimes these hospitals not having enough to take care of these patients. And im just stunned by the decisionmaking that has to happen at these hospitals now. I have a patient here. I have a patient here. Both of them, i could save them both, but i dont have the resources to do that, so im going to have to make a really tough decision. Thats whats happening here. Is that alarming . Yes, it should be alarming. Can it be prevented . Absolutely. Should we have been preparing for the last six weeks . For sure. Did we . Doesnt seem like it. Thats, i think if i get panicked, its not because of the virus. Its because of our response, i think, thus far to things. Stephen i hear conflicting stories of how this can spread. How does it spread, as far as we know . Is it surfaces . Is it droplets . Does it aerosolize . How long can it stay on the surface . Do we know . We do have a pretty good idea now. China was the first place we really started to see this, and there were large studies of 70,000, 80,000 people, and we look at that. It doesnt aerosolize, like measles that attach to dust and will suspend in the air. If i had measles and left here two hours later, someone could come in here and contract measles from where i was sitting. Stephen and thats not happening. Thats not the case here. The respiratory droplets can hang in the air for a bit but typically will go to ground or a surfar, or Something Like that. So if im in close proximity, within, you know, three to six feet, Something Like this yes, exactly its more concerning. But the surfaces is because the respiratory droplets can land on in. Ph ould people still date . I think it depends on how much you like the person. Stephen i mean, blind date . No. No, no blind dates. Stephen tinder . Definitely not. But even before this, no tinder. laughter im kidding. piano riff heres the heres the thing i think you know, stephen, everything in life is a risk reward proposition. I tell people all the time as a doctor, dont smoke, dont eat cheeseburgers and things like that, but if you really want one, you will do it, because the risk reward proposition is good enough for you. Getting on a plane im getting on a plane tomorrow, probably there are certain you know, is it riskier to do things than before . Perhaps. But everything is a risk reward proposition. Being in close contact with somebody, especially somebody you dont know, its a different time right now. And i think what im really struck by is that never before and i have been doing this for a long time have i found a situation where how i behave so dramatically impacts your health, and how you behave so dramatically impacts my health and all the people in this theater tonight. Stephen what i keep thinking of its not just you, but my behavior towyo ctir late 70s. Thats right. Stephen im seeing the people you know. Thats right, these concentric circles around you. And that has to be important to me. I have an obligation now, not just for my health, my familys health, but for your health and your familys health. We are codependent on each other in a way that ive never seen before. Theres an obligation now. I dont want to get too philosophical here, but i find it really fascinating, in a way, that if not for me if i dont engage in these good behaviors for me, then i should do it for you. I should do it for the people around me. And i think, hopefully, thats motivating for people to do this. I think individual behaviors make such a big difference here. I dont think people get it yet, but i think people will get this, stephen, i really do. Because its so important for people to understand i tell people to wash their hands and then, like, youre telling me in the middle of a pandemic that washing my hands, thats all youve got . Im like, do you understand how u,kes fome. Its becoming very real for people, i think, in that way. Stephen well, we dont have an audience, but we still have commercials. We have to take a little bit of a break. Please stick around. Well have more information about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and your family from dr. Sanjay gupta. Stick around. applause band playing room table,started atg has grown into a serious operation. Thats why i chose the spark cash card from capital one. 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Whoof whoof so get allstate where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. Sorry hes a baby were back with dr. Sanjay gupta. Lets talk about you mentioned that, you know, if you are exposed to this, you might be tested and, you know, find out that you have been exposed, and then people that you exposed have to be quarantined. How do you get tested . Um stephen have you been tested . I have not been tested. I dont think Everyone Needs to get tested. I think doctors need to make good judgment here. I dont think you want to cause a panic by just saying everyone should get tested. There are 350 Million People. Stephen the president has said, last week, that there are tests out there for everyone, presently tests for everyone. Theyre beautiful tests, theyre great tests, everyone who wants a test can get one today, as of yesterday, he said. Is that true or false, sanjay gupta . Its false. Stephen okay. And its sad, because there are so many things that work so well with our healthcare system. Im a member of the healthcare system. I think there are so many things that work. We failed, with regard to testing in this country. Stephen why, though . We do have excellent medical professionals and fantastic medical technology in the United States. Why dont we have a test . And why did we refuse the german test . Well, with regard to that second question, i think thats a really interesting thing. I mean, i think we get very provincial in the United States. If its not stamped with a made in america sign, we tend to think of other things as inferior. Things from other countries, we automatically think theyre not going to meet our standards. And that wasnt the case. Those tests were good and got out there stephen is that the test thats used in other parts of the world . Is south korea using the german test . The World Health Organization adopted it, and it got used in many countries. The South Koreans can and theyre using it in many countries in europe. Stephen is there going to be a test soon that can be mass produced in the United States . Yes, there is a test, and there has been a test, but they tried to scale it up and send it out to all these places. The initial test was flawed. It didnt work. They couldnt count on it actually giving conclusive results. They pulled everything back, and said were going to do everything out of the c. D. C. And whats striking, this week, stephen, if you go to the c. D. C. s web site and we have been talking about this for six weeks. I feel like i have been screaming into the abyss, and, frankly, you get a lot of pushback, especially on social fearmongering. Why are you being so critical . And even if you go to the c. D. C. s web site now, zero tests by the c. D. C. On some days this week, eight tests by the Public Health departments. Eight. Not 8,000 or 8 million, eight tests total. By our Public Health care system. Stephen and how many tests were they doing in south korea. South korea was doing 10,000 a day for a period of time. As people say, we dont have eyes on this thing. Its always described in hunting metaphors. I dont know if its an appropriate metaphor or not, but we dont have eyes on this. Even the numbers today, which have gone up significantly since last week when there were 15 cases, now there are more than 1,000 cases. I think thats a gross underestimate of whats actually happening here. Stephen lets talk about the address the president gave to the country last night. President s rarely speak from the oval office, only times usually of crisis. Yeah. Stephen last night, the president announced a european travel ban. European leaders were caught flatfooted. They were not given a headsup. They denounced it, and global stocks plunged overnight. Is there value to what the president proposed . Or is it the barn door is shut . Yeah, i think that metaphor is appropriate here, stephen. I mean, people will say, what about the travel ban on china back in january . You remember, 195 americans brought in by that flight and then put in quarantine at that air force base . Huge move. That hadnt happened in 60 years in this country. Last time that happened was smallpox. It was a big decision to do this. The problem now is that theres a lot of cases of coronavirus in this country, and they are spreading in communities. So youd really have to justify why you would do a travel ban from countries that may have a similar number of coronavirus as we do. And, again, we dont know how many cases we have, because we havent been testing. Stephen as a medical professional, have you heard from the administration a rationale as to why Continental Europe may be cut off but the u. K. Is not, or south korea was not . Yeah, i mean, they did have these levelthree restrictions in south korea, so they had some no nonessential travel and things like that. But, no, it didnt make a lot of sense, especially given that were talking about a little strand of r. N. A. Here that doesnt respect borders or boundaries. It travels freely all around these places. So the fact that you could arbitrarily say this and by the way, china is saying, we dont want people from other countries coming to us, because weve got it under control. Stephen they announced they believe theyre past the peak of the epidemic. Thats right. Stephen what can we learn from the chinese . China was very heavy handed. Maybe a little slow coming out of the gate when you look at what was going on there in november and december. But very heavyhanded. They basically had the largest quarantine ever recorded in the history of the world. 60 Million People under quarantine over there, not letting people in or out, really trying to contain this virus. Thats containment, which isdif, which is jusowing e spread of it. Containment was the name of the game over there, something that could happen in china, and i think you saw the stephen can it happen in the United States, though . For instance, wuhan was the first place they contained, and the area around it. That city itself is 11 Million People. Right, Small Chinese city. Stephen exactly, a Small Chinese city. It would be the equivalent of, say, no one in the new york metropolitan area can go in or go out. Are we headed that way . I dont think we could ever do what they did in china. You know, in order for quarantines like that to work, first of all, you have to do it early, you have to be very consistent, and everyone has to be super honest about this. In china, it was mandated. I mean, its a different rule of law there. I mean, everyone talks about this the autocracy and what that really means when it comes to government. And, in many ways, theres a lot of negatives. But with this particular situation, they were able to do something that i dont think can be done in hardly any of the other places in the world. But one thing i want to point out, theyre not the only model of success. Im optimistic. You look at singapore. You look at hong kong, stephen, borders Mainland China they have had about 120 patients diagnosed. But a lot of things can be done, but they have to be done early. The measures in terms of social distancing can have a real impact then. Stephen if you can stick around for one more act . We have to take another commercial break, but come back, because well have more of dr. Sanjay gupta talking about coronavirus, fact versus fiction. Stick around. applause band playing good moves. Or hydration. Neutrogena® hydro boost. The 1 hyaluronic acid moisturizer delivers 2x the hydration for supple, bouncy skin. Neutrogena®. This is my body of proof. Proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. Proof i can fight psoriatic arthritis. 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All the contenders Major Party Contenders for the 2020 election are over 70, even elizabeth warren, who just dropped out, is 70 herself. Yeah. Stephen should they continue to campaign . You know, i think its going to have to be a Different Campaign if they want to be as honest about whats happening in this country as possible. Stephen looks like bernie and biden have cancelled their rallies. Canceled rallies. Stephen canceled the audience for the debate, which is on cnn. Yeah. Stephen the president has huge rallies. Look, i know hes getting guidance from really good people around him. I know these people. They talk to me. Some of them are my sources. I talk to them on a regular basis. He knows hes at least being told the deal with this. I mean, with rallies, you cant social distance people. People are going to be right up on top of each other. They could spread the virus. Even if they dont, somebody tests positive, are you going to basically go back and try to quarantine large groups of people . People come from all over the place, and then they go back to their hometowns. How do you to contact trace, to figure out where this virus went, how it spread, its such a huge burden on the Public Health irden on the Public Health system to have rallies because of that. Its not just, you know, a possible medical issue. Thats the biggest issue. But think about all the work that would need to be done if just one person, then, tested positive. Its a real issue. And, again, i know people that are very close to the president and within federal governmentars stephen before we go, can i give you a taste of that . Yes. Stephen and is this actually effective . Yeah, Hand Sanitizer is good 60 alcohol, which that stuff does, ive checked. Soap and water, really good. Stephen but a good scrub. 20 seconds. Stephen 20 seconds. You know what . So i do this, and youve really got to get in there like that, and then the other side. When youre a surgeon, you get up to your wrists and forearms, too. You dont have to do that here. Dont forget th thumbs. Everyone always forget to wash their thumbs. 20 seconds is a lot longer than you think. I travel a lot, and im in the terminal restrooms, and ive never seen so many guys being so diligent about washing their hands. So thats good. If nothing else good comes from this, we are cleaner than ever. Stephen remember, interlace your fingers when you wash, everybody. Heres the church, heres the steeple, the entire congregation is extremely nervous. laughter y od. Stephen doctor, thank you so much for being here. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Stephen coronavirus fact vs. Fiction is available daily online. Dr. Sanjay gupta, everybody. Well be right back. cheers and applause band playing we are tmobile the first to go unlimited. First with no annual service contracts. 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