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The virus extracted from frozen bodies under alaskan permafrost. Released in 2010, this is just under an hour. In 1918 lived in sequoia county mishlgts Family Living in philadelphia. In 1918 we were living in el paso, texas. Born and raised in baltimore. In bustling cities and remote villages and in the United States and around the world, orphaned children cried for their parents in 1918. People of all cultures struggled with the same terrible threat, and within a matter of months as many as 50 million would be dead. And the United States, the death toll reached 675,000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [ bell tolls ] many, many people died. We had just come from a few years before, from mexico where we were living. On kind of the revolution, the mexican revolution. I was about 10 years old. I was the oldest. And my Four Brothers and sisters of the family, only my dad and my sister, my taller sister, did not get it. My two bro
Bill good evening. My name is bill leggett. I am a bookseller. On behalf of the entire staff welcome. , its a pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to be hosting sonia shah. And hearing her discuss her book, epidemic, trekking from cholera and beyond. If you have any noisemaking devices, take a moment to silence them now. Sonja will read for about half an hour and then take as many of your questions we can fit into 20 minutes. And then she will sign books afterwards. We encourage questions, but need you to use actually the one microphone thats here on the right by the pillar, so that everyone can be involved in the conversation and also for our cspan audience. After the event is over, if you great help if you fold up the chair and place it against a bookshelf, and it will be time for the book sailing book signing, and the books are for sale when you walked in. Sonia shaw is an investigative author whose work has appeared in the New York Times and scientific american, among others. H
In the United States, the death toll reached 675,000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [bell tolls] [bell tolls] many people died. We had just come from a few years before from mexico, where we were living. On account of the mexican revolution. I was about 10 years old, i was the oldest. My Four Brothers and sisters of the family, only my dad and my sister did not get it. My two brothers were in one room sick, i was sick in the other bedroom with my mother. My poor dad and sister had to be our attendants and do what they could do for us. Influenza gave you such high fever. Mother told me that i thought her black hair was a cat and i was afraid it was the delirium from the high fever. People are left very weak. That high fever. Public schools and Public Places closed. I guess for nearly two or three weeks. I was eight years old. We lived near my dads mother. She and her daughter and two grandchildren were living close to us. Wh
Joe nowhere to hide. Really ugly back to back days to start the week. Scarlet there are plenty of places to hide. Joe 10 year treasury, swiss franc. Scarlet japanese yen. We can go on. Two charts to put this risk asset selloff in perspective. This is very simple. On bottom, bonds of top the one asset class doing well over this time period. On bottom, we have crude, copper. In white, the s p 500 down 6 . Composite in blue, down just 0. 75 may be a benchmark here. 500reason to think the s p will join the dow transports. The 200 Day Moving Average in yellow. On friday, you can see the dow transports going right through the 50 day average. When the dow transports in the past has gone below that 200 Day Moving Average, there has not been an exception. This chart would suggest more term,at least in the near for the s p 500. Worstooking at one of the performing sectors in the s p 500. 4 , theals down about worst slide since 2011. That is as fears of the coronavirus continue. One of the larges