So speaking of funding gaps. The Brennan Center for justice hosting a discussion on how the government should respond to protests. Whetherthe response should be different for Peaceful Protesters and anarchists and what the response could be. Democracy and equal protection under the law. We are a nonpartisan 501 c 3 . We do not participate in elections or endorse or oppose candidates in any way and we are very grateful to be producing todays event with the nyu John Brenneman center which advocates for civil debate on politics and Public Policy and nyu votes which works to give every nyu student the information they need to vote. I am especially grateful to be introducing an event with some of the countries most important thinkers on what i think is one of themost urgent issues we face and theres a lot of competition. Weve been witnessing a relentless andunprecedented series of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system. Elections and the rule of law. They are not unrelated
The number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And doctor Francis Collins who once led the human genome project and now leaves the National Institutes of health needs a competitive shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and extensive diagnostictests. Covid19 plans should last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls s work speed a, faster than weve ever done that before but no one expects a vaccine this august. The second half of the school year schools should be able to provide more tests, more treatments, better Contact Tracing and hopefully we should begin to have vaccines. It will likely be the fall of 2021 though before we begin toapproach normal. There are several reasons schools have an advantage in weproviding a safe environment for students and for faculty. One younger people have been less hurt by covid19 and older people. Although doctor county told our committee we sh
Eric katz is a sin to correspond with thend publicatin governor executive and recently published a piece take a look at federal employees and how they been impacted by covid19. Morning. Good morning. Paint a picture overall will be our first number of employee employees. So the number of employees with tested positive is over 10,000 and thats been growing pretty rapidly. A lot of these workers are on the front lines so their exposure rates are pretty elevated. Weve seen that kind of climb at a pretty rapid rate. The Defense Department has a lot of positive cases, delivering healthcare, employees have a lot of cases and the Postal Service is also there. They are out there every day. They are acting with customers and doing the rounds so that has left a fairly high exposure although were talking about over 2 million federal employees here. Thats to be expected that the would be some cases. If youre talking and saying frontline people like the deity, like the v. A. , like the Postal Servi
Initial advisement how to handle call that 19 been trained on its chads well to discuss that im now im joined by stephen home and director of the global strategy law and professor of Global Health law and Political Science at York University professor hultman thank you very much for joining us from what i understand to be the privacy of your home thats right i mean so quarantine myself after the canadian government asked anyone returning to canada within the last 14 days to remain in their homes for the remainder of that 14 day period and the you told me before the recording that its your 12th day in south quarantine and you seem to be doing pretty well yes yes im very lucky i have i can apartments i have family and friends who have been able to help and but it. Take its toll in the sense that im used to being out and about so going to work and this is a new experience for. But one that i recognize how lucky i am given i have friends and family and supports that i know that from the ve
Professor hall Global Health law and Political Science at York University professor holtman thank you very much for joining us from what i understand to be the privacy of your home thats right i mean so quarantine myself after the canadian government asked anyone returning to canada within the last 14 days to remain in their homes for the remainder of that 14 day period and the you told me before the recording that its your 12th day in south korea and you seem to be doing pretty well yes yeah im very lucky i have i can apartments i have family and friends whove been able to help and but it. Take its toll in the sense that im used to being out and about so going to work and this is a new experience for me but one that i recognize how lucky i am given i have friends and family and supports that i know that from the very beginning of this al baker youve been. Calling against overreaction and severe. Travel restrictions and many policy makers including Canadas Health minister seem to share