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We would like to thank the general supporters. The magazine aspires to as a unifier of our nation. It was positively reviewed in the washington post. Are a number of the articles that you can view online if you check out the magazine. Next slide. We are thrilled to have a stellar lineup of experts to discuss the future so future of science in this country. Two experts will speak for approximately eight minutes before we moved to the next pair. At the end of the five conversations, we will bring the speakers back for a q a. You can submit your question using the q a feature. Atwill conclude the summit 1 10 p. M. Eastern time. We will have the chat open for all attendees if people wish to react to the discussion ors share information. Or share information. We will not be reading the biography. We will time each conversations for eight minutes and give notice when there is 30 seconds remaining in each conversation. Our first pair is dr. Michelle mcmurray and dr. Franz. We will bring those two into the spotlight. To kick uswelcome off with the first question. So, i am interested in how you are seeing this impacting science funding. We have seen new models for scientific funding. And 2020. What is this mean for the future . Dealing with the covid situation, impacting science funding, michelle . Exactly. Several agencies are busy. They are doing an admirable job. I know the National Science foundation, with which i am most doing reviews remotely. Tremendoustting a number of awards. That it is working out very well for that particular agency. I have been much more involved in the philanthropic world. The foundations are stepping up. Signs philanthropy alliance, for which i am a toior advisor is doing a lot encourage the funding of basic research. The foundations are stepping up, realizing the tremendous importance of the continuity of science funding. Have been so many allegations of political interference in science funding and the covid related projects and agendas through this last year. Can public trust and science agencies further the progress of science to the benefit of the public . That is an important question, michelle. It is essential that the public trust the science agencies which. Ave been authorized and funded there have been allegations of political interference in the agenda or projects by some federal agencies. Reading ang, i was misstep by the ceo of sigma phi thinkhow should be established including outlets, those of the Scientific Societies have recorded various instances. I think that the fact so many are concerned about these allegations and congress is clearly concerned is a healthy sign that the public wants to ensure trust. We want to hold them accountable, want them to be transparent. That is a good thing for our democracy. In my term of six years, we did not suffer from political interference. We hoped to maintain our mission to further the progress of science. We were sensitive to the priorities of different administrations. House0, our white memorandum laid out the basic principles for the development and implementation of scientific integrity policies. Published, ahad few years later, their scientific integrity policies that were consistent with the intent of that memo. There was an uneven application, oversight of the policy. They found that a number of the departments we have a ways to go. Congress is actively proposing requirements for scientific integrity among the agencies. Example, a bear in march of requireuld record scientific Training Programs and so on. It had almost 200 supporters in congress. Bringk this issue you up will come to the floor with the new administration. It is an important one. Part of what we are seeing in terms of competence around a potential Covid Vaccine and responding to covids public discomfort with how science can understand something one day or seem to be going in one direction and then face a setback. How do you think we can better educate the public on the . Cientific process and how covid really brings that question to the forefront. People perhaps did not think deeply about the scientific process and were confused about why were not there absolutes that we have a cure for this or we said we were going in this direction, why didnt we get there . Progress, understanding treatments, understanding how to contactata analysis and and the important vaccines. There they are understanding time forakes a long ,cience to address important big milestones, big goals. E had a number of samples the imaging of the black hole and so on, that we were careful to report. These took decades to come to fruition. Teamwork, global teamwork. And so, i think that there is more of an effort on the part of scientists and engineers and the and everyone in Media Publications to reinforce how long it takes the different. Teps about 30 seconds remaining in this conversation. Midst of an the president ial transition season. I participated on the Obama Transition Team many years ago. To theuld be your advice Transition Team looking at nsf right now . I think the agency is remarkable in its goals and its its team that has people exceptionally committed to the mission of the agency. My advice is to do no harm. It is such a beautiful agency. We want to always encourage more young people to get involved in science. That the nsf is an toitation to young people find out what it is like to andit a great proposal be a part of the entire spectrum of science and engineering. We will bring dr. Mcmurry heath back at the end. Are happy to have the head of office of Health Science and Technology Innovation at Johnson Johnson. Johnson johnson. I hear you are busy working on a vaccine. Can you tell us a little bit about it and some of the have about thee equitable delivery of the vaccine . Ande is johnson and johnson what are some of the challenges youre considering on the road to making sure the u. S. And the whole world has access to it . 24 7 since the beginning of this year, when treatment for the coronavirus became a valuable available in january. Is is vaccine that a platform. This is the same platform that reviews many of the other , including the one we developed for zika but we never launched it. Ika kind of disappeared the same vaccine is being used in the hiv arena. And the bullet vaccine was approved by the European Union approved bycine was the European Union last year. We have a huge vaccine expertise. We jumped on it immediately. Is in phase today 3. The studies are ongoing across the world. In latin america, in south africa and in many countries in europe. It is a singledose vaccine. Fingers crossed, we are hoping to see the results soon. To have batches of the vaccine available for earlyncy authorization in january 2021. To make one billion vaccines per year. Our commitment is to make it available for a notforprofit price. In addition to working with , in terms of equitable access and distribution of the vaccine, we are working with many other people. We made a commitment to annotate a portion of our vaccine as early as next year to the lower and lower middle Income Countries and lower Income Countries. This is a commitment we made at was makingy where g7 a commitment to equitable access across the world. We are looking forward to the results. And hoping to make a big difference for the world. That is wonderful. I am sure everybody is delighted to hear that. Youre the head of Global Innovation at Johnson Johnson. In africa youre trying to encourage finding the next einstein for science and engineers. I personally think the future of science in america depends on the future of science in the whole world and how we interact and engage with the whole world. Can you tell us about your efforts, globally, in encouraging young people to become the next einstein . May know, as you Johnson Johnson is a global company. People Global Network of and products. Today, i know everybodys mind is on covid. Have multiple things for medical solutions and medical devices. Wewe think about that and think about the pipeline, we about the sure pipeline. The diversity of ideas, i think we all believe an know that science is not individual activity. It is a team sport. It is also a national and collaborative enterprise. A great idea can come from anywhere or anyone. To pounce be prepared on those ideas. Are the solutions to make the world a better place. That is just great. Innovationu see being required in what you do . Where do you think we have the biggest need for most innovation . I think it is across the globe. I think on the one hand, we are focused on Public Health solutions and infectious diseases. There continues to be a huge need. But the noncommunicable diseases , cancer, heart disease, alzheimers, as of last year, before covid, we all thought that was the next ticking time bomb. It probably still is. That is another area. As i think across the whole landscape, we have come a long way in health care. Majorhere are still challenges to be solved. These do not recognize national boundaries. They are human specific. Cardiovascular disease, cancer still remains a huge issue. We are excited about gene therapies. A place where we want more innovation is the personalized medicine the future that we all imagined. 30 seconds remaining. Future, i think it is personalized medicine. But also, in the hands of young scientists all over the world. Thank you very much. Good luck with that vaccine development. Thank you. Be joseph, a professor of biochemistry and biochemists at ucsf. Hi, joe. I dont see you yet. There you are. Hi, how are you . Im doing great. It is a very interdisciplinary type of innovative approach to solving problems. What are some of the things youre working on now . Sure. There are two organizations, the Zuckerberg Initiative and bio hub. I am with the bio hub. They are two separate organizations. Covid, you areof asking what are we working on or what were we working on precovid and it is ironic. Precovid, the bio hub and the bill and Melinda Gates foundation, we were working on an worldwide, Early Warning for infectious diseases. Kind of ironic. It was to leverage biology and infrastructure in low Income Countries by giving them technology training. The price of analyzing data has actually gone up while the cost to process samples has gone down. There are solutions to that. What good is the data if you cannot analyze it . Was ivc. Ion this was precovid. People in your own country to analyze samples from people, insects, life stocks, environment. Whatever you want . Making an emergency pathogen dashboard for the world was the idea. In early january, i was in cambodia, with the team, helping to set up the system there. It was with the institute there that they used the system to detect a chinese tourist with covid. We were able to sequence that genome in midjanuary, early on in the pandemic. We thought great, the system is working. This thing probably will not go. Ar past asia we were badly wrong and that, obviously. Now the march, where are we and what are we turning our attention to . We made a huge pivot. Everything we do now is all covid, all the time. Critical lab testing in the bay area to address the testing for ,he most vulnerable populations prisons, jails. Technology to be more actionable and useful. That is, every time or every two to three times covid jumps from persontoperson, a mutation is introduced in the genome, pretty much randomly. This effectively leaves a breadcrumb trail in the dream youn genome that allows to trace back where the virus has been. This is an amazing tool. We have been sequencing all of the covid genomes we can get. We are turning that information back to the counties in a way to make the information imminently actionable. You may ask how does that work . You have two nursing facilities, both of which have outbreaks. This is a real example but i will not name names. In the sequence data, we saw d identicalhare genomes that are geographically distant from each other. We know they did not share patients. Had to share employees. We found the link to cut transmission changed sure. We need to use every scrap of toormation we have right now stop the third transmission of the virus. Up,ith thanksgiving coming there is already a spike in covid cases. It will go even higher. Talkingnology you are about, it sounds amazing. It sounds almost sciencefiction light, which is fabulous. Why is, why isnt it that, in america, where we are one of the most advanced nations, having so much trouble we are having so much trouble . There is a lot to unpack. One of the issues, there are many issues, ranging from political to organizational. Let me address some of the obvious ones. I can speak mostly for of 58rnia, we are a stay counties. Each county has its own department of state of 58 counties. Each county has its own department. You have 58 different ways of doing things. 58 intentionally different information systems. Transmitting information among counties is hard. We had a conversation with one of our departments of Public Health and said if you could have anything you want right now, a shiny testing machine or more people, what would it be . And the officer said information. Our inability to move information around and coordinate makes us uniquely unprepared for a pandemic, which does not give a hoot about county borders. Exactly. If you think about contact tracing, we have not been able to Deploy Technology in the way other places have deployed technology. Let me switch gears for a second. Clearly, some leadingedge work going on around the country. What role can academic and private sector collaboration can play . In this pandemic and also in the future and how is that important to the future of science in america . In a situation like a pandemic, i feel like it is all hands on deck. You need to do what you have to do to get the job done. People aree what working on before, today, you are working on covid. We turned all of our attention to addressing what the problem had to be. That is why we spun up a testing laboratory. Of labcorpquestion company, why are you doing this . Everybody has a responsibility in academia and in the Nonprofit Sector to step up and do what they can in the moment of the emergency to the best of their ability. You cannot sit back and wait for the cavalry to come. If there is anything we have learned in this pandemic, no one is coming. 30 seconds remaining. You worked in infectious diseases. This is collaboration on a massive scale. Borders, whatfic can we learn from this sort of collaboration . I hope the lessons we have learned are those that persevere. In thessons were learned 1918 pandemic but were forgotten over the decades. Worked to relearn how to together and transmit data and information in real time in a way that is useful to everybody and to have coordination across Public Health authorities, which, right now, we dont. I hope that we learn to use these tools and technologies. Hat are developed we still do not have an operational vaccine. I hope the lessons of this pandemic will not be forgotten. Thank you. Such a great note to end on. We appreciate you joining us. Thank you. We are joined by the founder one vote. A Nonprofit Organization votested to getting on issues like Climate Change. Now that the election is behind us, what are the next priorities for you and your peers who are committed to Climate Change and equality . I would love to think the election is behind us but, aside from the ongoing struggle of conceding what the results were and the results are what the results are, joe biden is our president elect. I want to highlight the fact that the election, in many ways, is not over. I want to put a highlight on the Senate Runoffs that are happening in georgia. Right now, we are seeing the control of the senate will come down to what happens in georgia. There are two senate races in georgia where the control of the senate will come down to that. In many ways, the ability for n to have a corporative senate depends on when he does with science policy. I want to make sure that we highlight that is not over and that our mission is to mixer we get as many people on the ground in georgia to go out and vote before that senate runoff. Change,comes to climate i think what we have seen over the last few years has been fairly classic cataclysmic in america in terms of what we are doing for Climate Change. I am glad that even in the conversation of all of the science stuff that we are having Climate Change brought up. I think a lot of the focus of the Science Community is on the coronavirus. Rightly so. We cannot ignore the main crisis we have. It is clear that we need to reduce our Carbon Emissions in half by 2030. What that looks like is essentially a 7. 5 percent reduction every year from 2020 to 2030. It is 2020 and we didnt do anything to wherewhere on track we need to be. States, in united particular, has gone backward in a lot of climate policies, rolling back protections for clean air, clean water, methane emissions. Forward, what we need to see is a much more aggressive effort to push forward an agenda on client change. Seen ishave president elect joe biden say he will reenter the paris accord. Symbolicargely a gesture. Globally, the paris accord has done very little to limit our global emissions. Even in the midst of the. Andemic it has reduced but not to the level of what we need to see. I think there is a disconnect between what the science makes clear about what needs to happen on Climate Change and Climate Action and what we are seeing in terms of the political realities of america. I am skeptical, my peers as well are skeptical that we are handle the situation if we continue to go at it from what we have seen over the past two years or even before that. We will not be able to address the Climate Crisis in a significant, meaningful way through a series of executive orders that are pushed through and not really done or followed effort ond a coherent the ground across utility, the private sector, Cross Transportation in the United States. Lets beeper frog live for a provocativets be for a minute. Lets say the senate is not in the democrats hands. What can the Biden Administration do realistically in that situation on the Climate Change issue . The presidency is providing. Kamala harris is our Vice President as well. Congress is with the democrats. Thehe senate does not go to democrats, there is a large potential to take action. Limited, though it will be. There is the ability for biden to establish a climate mobilization office. I think what we need to see is a larger level of coherent efforts to specifically fight the Climate Crisis. As we know, climate is a threat multiplier. It not only increases temperatures but it impacts our food, it impacts our water. It impacts our air and education and those that are most vulnerable. The indigenous, black people, people of color. As well as jobs in our economy. We need to have a more coherent way of bringing those different entities together. We have never really seen anything like that. I think that would be important. Into thet us back paris accord through executive order. Again, a symbolic gesture. And can declare a climate emergency. The United States and many other nations around the world have often declared climate emergencies. Those threats have not necessarily been taken particularly seriously, as we have seen by literally people doing nothing. It ends up being a lot of lip service. I think the reality is that we are at the point of Climate Change where we cannot have any more inaction. Every year we do not reduce emissions, emissions are increasing. Every year where we dont reduce emissions, not only are those emissions increasing, but our cumulative are increasing cumulatives are increasing. We know that these crises impact the most vulnerable communities the most intensely. I think he also has the ability andighlight those issues whether we are disturbing a vaccine or taking care of Different Development of fossil fuels and other environmental injustice issues, he has the ability to highlight and prioritize those communities that have suffered the most. Do. E is a lot that he can particular, i believe in the last for essential debate, fracking became a big thing. 30 seconds remaining. I want to emphasize if we are going to reduce our emissions, we cannot be creating fossil fuel developments. Every pipeline is under potential or under proposal when, by projection, it is set to be out for 2020 years for 20 or 30 years. We have to be cognizant of what he is doing and push for president elect joe biden to push for more progressive and action oriented things. I dont think we can keep waiting until 2030 and 2050. What can you do in your first 100 days in office to put us on a pathway to reduce emissions 7. 5 this year is what we need to see from joe biden. Great. I am looking forward to that. We will bring back dr. Mcmurry heath. Hello, dr. Mcmurry heath. Thank you for staying on with us. So, you are kind of a boss. Whohave thousands of people have been doing a lot of the work in development and research on covid, coronavirus. What can we look forward to seeing, obviously the Pfizer Vaccine develop its have been a big thing. Can you give us a look at what is to come . A membership organization. The Biotechnology Organization represents a number of companies in biotech, across health care, agriculture and environment. I was interested to hear your comments on the environment. We think it is incredibly important and Environmental Justice is so key. The part of making sure where we have making sure we have more Equitable Society and scientific breakthroughs in organizations and reach communities in need most effectively and immediately. The response by our companies on covid has been amazing. In the 10 months since the pandemic came onto the stage, our companies have started over 800 research and Development Projects for therapeutics or cines read 191 vaccines vaccines. 191 vaccines are in developing. Development. The news last night from modernity that there vaccine is shortly behind and also doing well moderna that there vaccine istheir shortly behind and doing well is great. All of these are Building Blocks toward getting that real armament we will need for a concerted response. It would be ideal if we had our biotechnology responses married to have sound married to conference of strategies for a hopefully more of that will be to come. Is going biotechnology out for force to try to help us combat this. Absolutely. I think there have been, like you said, some incredible developments that are not the ones that are highlighted in the news but helping to treat the impacts of the coronavirus. Is the biggestnk challenge in Public Health right now that you think needs to be overcome for you to be able to use these technologies that youre developing in an effective way . The biggest unknown hanging out there that i hear from a lot of our Member Companies is uncertainty at the federal level. Smooth to see a transition between administrations to ensure that the u. S. Food and Drug Administration, which has been pivotal to this effort, is responsible for declaring whether or not any of these rapies are effective critical in not just mapping out who should get the vaccine first, but how we will actually physically get it to all the locations we will need it around the country. Those sorts of efforts cannot flag. They cannot wait on politics. We have to put patients first. We are seeing a massive spike in coronavirus right now. I am not leaving my house. That is going to continue for the next several months. The holidays are coming together and we are all trying to get together for thanksgiving and christmas and all of that. How do you think that that will play a role into the work that we are doing you are doing . It certainly hit home for everyone. Our scientists are not immune and missing their families trying to homeschool. Everyone is working through restrictions and new realities. I think all of the scientists working on the front lines in our companies are aware of the urgency and want to do everything they can to get the solutions out as fast as possible. It is going to be a hard season. We are used to being together as americans at this time of year. Not just on the december holidays but also on thanksgiving. This is going to be a virtual celebration, nationally. We will have to find a way to keep hitting home the importance of mass wearing, social distancing, limiting social gatherings and not traveling if it is not absolutely necessary because we are still not out of the woods, even though we see some promising biotech breakthroughs. Have done work for the e obama administration. You have any advice for incoming Vice President joe biden on what he can do to , coronavirus . One of the interesting things i see about how to gear up for transition is the fear of involving a lot of folks that are on the front lines, working towards the solutions. What we do, for example in the fruit and Drug Administration and what we do in our companies that are developing these products and bringing them all the way to the patients bedside is unique. You do not see it in academia or federal labs. It is a unique body of knowledge. I hope that, as we are bringing stakeholders the table, we include that body of knowledge. We have seen it with operation warp speed. One of the leaders has a history of being able to deliver new drugs and solutions to patients. That is what we need to make sure we see as well. I am up to mystic i am optimistic. There is a lot of work yet to be done. Absolutely. We need those solutions. I am trying to go out with my friends. At first i thought is this going to be one or two weeks, one or two months and now it is one or two years. You got ready to sit in your house for a month or so and now three or four have passed trade is incredible. What is one final take away from your research that you want everybody to remember . The Covid Vaccines have been through more scrutiny and more examination than almost any vaccine in history. While i know folks are worried about the politicization of science, know that there are so many eyes on this process that when we get vaccines out to patients, they will be some of the toughest vaccines ever developed. That is important for us all to remember if we want to return our country to normal. Lets get those vaccines. Thanks so much. Now, we will bring back all five of the speakers. We have about 20 minutes remaining for a public u. N. Day which we have been monitoring. Please contribute your questions there. I will ask lee first question. This can go to anyone who wants to chime in. What kind of concerted effort should be made to bring the voice of scientists to the political body . How should this be done . Michelle, since you guys are doing something in that arena . Sure. Scientists are never shy to volunteer. Scientists have great knowledge bring to bear. We are trying to renew scientific pride. There has been a disparagement to Bring Solutions to parent patients. They are doing this to try to improve Public Health. We need to make sure that voice is included in the table. One of the things i would add long,t is that, for too the scientific world and the nonscientific world have not interacted in a wholesome way. One of the key things that scientists and the public, i say public in general, nonscientists, need to do is engage with each other more. For too long, science has been the ivorying in tower. I think we need that engagement in order to make sure that this is a public dialogue in which everybody can participate. I would like to add something that, there are lots of opportunities for scientists to get more involved in internships. Several agencies in the federal. Overnment as a whole i know that it is a struggle. They are transformative. It changed my course from research. Involvedg much more with how to get back give back and include more science in the political realm. There are opportunity abounds. You have to want to do it. As a former aaa fellow, i could not agree more. I think that it is really important that, in the political world, we see a lack of expertise from the people that are in office. Even at the mobile City Council Meetings and things like that, i think Civic Engagement from the Science Community is really important to make sure that our elected officials are on track with what the science is saying. In the science and politics area, it is important that our politics are informed by science. I think we have to continue to advocate for that. I would love for it to be automatic but i dont think everyone necessarily trusts science all the time. When we are dealing with Climate Change, that is really important. Make sure you are doing the proper science work. But the advocacy component, the Civic Engagement component, the storytelling component is super vital. Thank you. Our next question comes from shirley, who says since it is likely that more than one vaccine will be available in 2021, how will the public decide which vaccine to take . I can jump in on that. We will need more than one. We will need many vaccines. We have so many shots on goal. There will be some vaccines that will be more amenable to certain populations than others. There will be some, the elderly sometimes struggle with making a robust immune response. Need aill be ones that like the Johnson Johnson one, as opposed to a dual dose. Some of them are stable at 70, some can be frozen, some are stable at room temperature. Thee think about immunizing globe, we will need lots of different technologies to get to the finish line. It really you said well. I think we need as many vaccines as we can get. It is ok that they are all of different types. Different things will be appropriate for different populations in different circumstances. As michelle said, the Johnson Johnson vaccine, it can be stored. With they infrastructure challenged places, this will be an easier thing to get to people. Some of the high tech kinds of measures and vaccines that are inilable will be appropriate areas where high tech can be supported. We need all of them. Great. I will pose two questions that are slightly different but related. Lee mcintyre from Boston University asks, my concern is that despite all of the innovations and breakthrough of science, we are hampered by science denial. Does anyone know any ways to combat science to him nile science denial . With the start Scientific Literacy part. Lot about, i talked a this in the past. It is not exactly a small portion of the small propor people who deny it is not the people we want to address. The more popular question is science literacy, how do we embrace the potential people out susceptible to becoming science deniers in the future because they dont know very much . At the state level, i saw a lot about different states more about tremendous opportunities to work with teachers in the state and the governor of the state and put that on the agenda. Science literacy is really important. I am glad that, through the election, there has been so much emphasis on the importance of science. All the way through. Organizations with the federal government and the federal science agencies, the Scientific Societies, we all need to encourage everybody to become a part of the science literacy agenda. Many of us have teachers in the family. Tuned into science literacy. Only that way can we mitigate the people from becoming science deniers later on. I apologize. It has been such a wonderful conversation. Thank you. Will just say that we need to make science sexy or whatever we want to call it. We need to make science more appealing. It has just been disciplined which a discipline which has been appropriated with difficult to understand concepts and difficult to access people. Therefore, i think if we can , even the language be a goodthat would start. Somethingf making it that is accessible to all and not feeling like it is a privilege of a few, that shipped in mind is what we need. I hope the next generation will play a big role in making that happen. I will say, as the young person here, i think that how we tell these stories and the way we tell the stories are expanding and changing. I think it gives me both hope and fear. I will start on the hope part. We see social media. We all have a voice and we have the ability to put forward our opinions and tell stories in our own way. I think science needs to be a part of that. We need to encourage people who are learning science, even if they are in high school, to start breaking the expertise and ideas into other fields and other forms of storytelling. Even my work is in policy stuff, voting as well as climate. That, wee been doing have had the ability to work with fashion and celebrity. Literally, reaching millions of people online. We need to think about how we andchange storytelling bring together these different sectors so that, at every level, people understand what is happening with science. What is happening with coronavirus and what is happening with Climate Change. Because, werried have seen massive, massive disinformation online, particularly on facebook around coronavirus. Putting a flag on a post that says here is a link to the cdc will only be so effective. I think it is important that as we move forward, we start taking action to stop these echo chambers from developing online that are allowing the breeding of subcultures who are xists. Acc i think we need to take action on that and continue to allow for real science to be integrated into our communication. I am hoping that what happens as a result of the pandemic that people want to know where dr. Fauci is. I think it is important we continue to see more efforts like that and more integration of science into all aspects of our society. Fauciis nice to see dr. On the cover of in style magazine. That was great. There are so many questions that we wont have time to answer. I think this is an incredibly important question. How do we reach those people . I am not sure about the first part of that sentence. It is really clear that there and that is something that, for ee, personally, in this whol election experience, that struck me. My whole life is involved in. Cience and engineering i think this election is an invitation to us to address that question. Personally am going to spend a lot of time thinking about that and devoting myself to education to outreach and it is a very complicated election with respect to the latino population. They are not a homogeneous population. There are millions of them, and they are increasing. Is the way i would like each of us that i think this election has not changed our course but redirected it a bit that do out to people not, perhaps, have enjoy the access, the outreach that we have enjoyed. And once upon a time, we were those people as well. And i know i came into science late because i do not have access. That i thank that person for the question, and i think it is something we need to turn our minds to now that the election is over. That,and i would add to when you look at every poll, what democrats and republicans, the majority of each side want change, want ate vaccine on coronavirus. I do not think believing in science necessarily falls along policy lines, even though you may see messaging from certain leaders, and i think that is really important, that is what it is so important that we continue to push and engage on these issues. Because there is a fundamental disconnect in our democracy and what the public wants and is willing to be put into law. It is more important than ever that you contact your officials and let them know what you believe so, at the end of the day, what our politicians will put forth is what they think will keep them in office, so it advocateus to actively for the science. Science on its own does not advocate. It is just the reality of what is happening. We have to be the ones that do the work and push it forward. If youre looking for how to do that, you can join us at plus1vote. It is important we get engaged and actively use that science brainpower we have. Thank you. And one last question from paul how does science maybe dr. Derisi, you could kick us off. Can pairi yes, it there are a lot of safety precautions you can use to safely work in the lab. We have been working the lab 24 7 since march, at full tilt. Knock on wood we have had no incidents, that is because we mask wearing,ng social distancing, you cannot have people in the same room with clever strategies and revolving schedules, you can get quite a lot done, even with strict policies in place. It just requires you to be a little more clever, little more thoughtful on how you deploy your personnel and how they Work Together, but it should not be an obstacle to getting the task done. Great. Saad any closing thoughts for us in our last two minutes, the future of science in america . Hopeful. I well, im and it has been great in here. I think if we can Work Together as scientists and collaborators across all sectors on the pandemic, we can do great things in the future. Saad and i think that science is, for me, something that has always given me a lot of hope there ise in knowing an objective reality and an inherent curiosity and orders happening around us. Of course we talk a lot about the implications of the science from coronavirus Climate Change and all these other issues, but there is a lot more signs out there. I am hopeful that, in all these different fields, astrophysics to botany or whatever, that we continue engaging with science. It is important that we keep exploring the world around us and uncover the mysteries of the world. So thank you for joining us. On that note, thank you so much to all of our wonderful speakers and everyone who tuned in. Feel freeollow aspenlow leapsmag and the institute. Stay tuned. Thank you so much. Bye now. Thank you so much. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] monday night on the communicators, we will discuss affect ection will a big issue i am watching is how the Biden Administration may media regulate social companies. This has been a test of the integrity of the policies these Companies Adopted over the last few years. One thing the Biden Administration will have to figure out early on what to do with is they are inheriting, the very least, a google antitrust lawsuit from the doj. People. 2, to people who ot monday night at 8 00 p. M. The communicators on cspan 2. Tuesday morning, Mark Zuckerberg and jack dorsey talk about suppression of articles. They will testify in front of the senate to Share Committee live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3, on cspan. Org, or you can listen on the free cspan radio app. Launch for scheduled for sunday evening. Hello, everybody, and welcome from the Kennedy Space center from florida. I would like to welcome everyone to the traditional
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