Globe. Tonight we celebrate this is all i got, which immerses its readers in the life of a young homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter right here in new york city. Laurent is an awardwinning journalist, essayist and author. This is her third book and she has written about inequality and its many forms from publication including the New York Times, new york, the new republic, the nation, and salons. And has worked as a producer at npr. Tonight lord will be in conversation with New York Times non fiction critic the Senior Editor at harpers magazine. Our event tonight will run for about one hour, beginning with the conversation between jen and lauren alibi q a for all of our viewers. Please never to post your questions on ip k twitter feed. With no further do i passed the mic to jen to get us started. Thank you again and enjoy. Thanks much jessica. Hi lauren, congratulations on your book i was wondering if maybe to start off you could give us a few sentences
Country, and we want to see truth and transparency regarding health care practitioners. We believe patients need to know if they are being treated by a physician or a nonphysician practitioner like a nurse position practitioner or physician assistant. Our members are physicians, retired, resident physicians and students. Our funding comes from artificial supporters, which are people who pay dues or give us donations to do our work. Host you are a primary care physician and do direct primary care. What do primary care physicians do, and what is direct primary care . Guest i am a family physician, which is one of the types of primary care positions. Pediatrics,nclude obstetrics and gynecology, and primary care doctors are responsible for being the first line of defense for patients. We take care of chronic conditions patients have. For example, diabetes, high Blood Pressure. We also care for acute issues like colds and coughs, and covid19, as well as other things. I am a direct primary c
A petition against the Coalition Deal between rivals turned partners. Also the u. N. Warns of the dangers of misinformation countries fight coronavirus a World Press Freedom day insists that journalists have a crucial role. And the u. S. Considers retaliation against china over the handling of the pandemic. Good to have you with us and welcome to the news our afghanistan is bracing for a much higher rate of infection from coronavirus random testing in the capital kabul suggests a 3rd of its 4000000 residents could be infected and the country risks a diplomatic crisis with neighbor iran after dozens of afghan migrants were reportedly beaten tortured and left for dead while trying to cross over the border allegations that iran has denied a warning that alexey obriens report contains some disturbing images from the beginning. They left their homes in search of opportunity in iran instead witnesses say they were killed their final moments terrifying. The Iranian Border guards 1st beat us t
Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h
Gov. Cuomo good morning. A pleasure to be with you. Everyone knows the doctors, the budget director. Today is day 62. Feels like just yesterday. Before we look at the numbers, i want people to recall the context of these numbers and remember what we have accomplished. We were faced with the situation where the infection rate numbers were going straight up. That was only 30 days ago that we saw the number of cases, the number of people coming to hospitals, everything was going straight up. That number would have just continued to go straight up. And that is why all the projections, national projections, state projections, local projections turned out to be incorrect. Excuse me. Because they were all believing that that line was going to continue to keep going up. When happened is, new yorkers, americans, changed reality. Literally changed reality. They literally changed the path of the virus spread and reversed the spread, and that is what the closedown procedures did. That is what the