we're compiling data

That's all we can really do right now. It's a curious disease, obviously. All disease is curious in a way. We don't really know what disease is. When I go on the Carson show and say 'we don't really know what disease is,' I feel a kind of warming interest in the studio audience. People respond to human qualities. How intriguing, they think. All these instruments and machines and minds and years of fund-raising and decades of research, and we don't know what disease is. People like hearing that. We're all grappling together with the mysteries of life and death. They're reassured to learn they're not the only one with no answers. No one has the answers. There possibly are no answers.