Joining us now this morning on washington journal is dr. John andrews. Andrus who is an adjunct professor of Global Health at George Washington university. Your take on the president s announcement yesterday after the grim forecast, president is extending the social distancing limits until the end of april. What do you make of that move . I think thats excellent. I think the evidence has to be in the drivers seat and i have to commend him for taking that action. Host let me show you the Johns Hopkins statistics that are out there. Total confirmed cases around the world approaching 750,000. Total deaths approaching 35,000. We have been reviewing the u. S. Numbers this morning. The numberssee in and recent trends and other news from recent days. Put this in perspective for us. When i personally try to put this in perspective i think about my 35 years working in Global Health and there are two events that i think i use personally as touchstones in dealing with this current crisis. One is