In the golden state with more than 19,000 deaths. According to the covid tracking project hospitalized patients have doubled from 4,000 on november 12th to more than 8,000 today. Earlier today, San Francisco and san mateo counties joined other bay area counties in the states. Most restrictive reopening tier thats the purple tier, your c theyre that its covering most of the state the only bay area county thats not in the purple tier is marine county but under the purple tier gyms churches and movie theaters will have to operate outdoors were close capacity at retail stores. Right now is limited at 25 restaurants can continue to operate outdoors however counties in the purple tier must follow the states limited stay at home order the curfew which goes into effect every night from 10 00pm until 05 00am the next morning and that stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow night for both San Francisco and san mateo counties tonight there are new concerns about the impact that these late
Rising tide and the winner of the francis prize for outstanding books on American History 1997. He is current New York Times bestseller is the great influenza. Hes here to talk about that with us today. Hes currently a consultant with the World Health Organization on the subject of influenza. When hes done speaking, if you would like to ask questions, there will be two microphones in the back of the room. You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease th
Are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350 Million People in todays world.
The francis prize for outstanding books on American History 1997. He is current New York Times bestseller is the great influenza. Hes here to talk about that with us today. Hes currently a consultant with the World Health Organization on the subject of influenza. When hes done speaking, if you would like to ask questions, there will be two microphones in the back of the room. You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the we
As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Good morning, its monday, october seventh, 2019. The house and senate are on recess but if peter and inquiry continues this week with hearings in the house intelligence and Foreign Affairs committee. President trump is set to hold to bring Major Campaign rallies this week in minnesota and louisiana. And this morning we will begin by asking for your thoughts about what it means for the country to go through the president ial impeachment. What lessons should be learned from the efforts to impeach residents in and clinton. Phone lines set up differently this morning. If you lived through the nixon impeachment, you can call in at 202 7488000. If you lived through the clinton impeachment, 202 7488001. All others can call in at 202 7488002. You can send us a text message this morning. If you do so, please include your name and where you are from. Thats 202 7488002 th