I want to explain in advance at this in writing, weve examined various disasters from different perspectives, first of all, the psychological and physical problems that jamestown, disaster sermons and responses to fires hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the dawn and party and root to california, irish immigrants flaming the potato famine in the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism, johnston flood of 1889 the impact of the triangle shirt lays factory in new york city and disaster arts that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So today we are discussing david oceans Pulitzer Prizewinning book, polio an american story, you all received questions that i posted and i am really interested in this topic, because i also teach someone are in the 19 fifties and of course that is one so much of this book takes place and i think just looking at polio really reveals so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting though, i wan
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Down to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and response, preparing for the flu season, and resource priorities within the department. This is 15 minutes. What should be the hhs later Research Agenda as the nation six to understand what has happened during the pandemic and what kind of efforts should be sustained afterwards . Proven to be a valuable part of the covid response. This is such an unprecedented disease and its impact on the Health System is so unique. We are really learning. You can see we are learning how to treat patients with covid so much better as the time has progressed over the last several months. One of the key things we are doing as a funding opportunity with investigations as you mention, telemedicine and also treatment pathways and protocols in the idea would be to Fund Investigations to get information out on a short four to six month timeframe so we can replicate that and enhance learnings. We saw one of the key impacts of this with the south in the southwest. Wh
I just wanted to explain in advance that this advance that this history course looks at responses to disasters in American History, with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, weve examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems at jamestown. Disaster sermons and responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the donner party en route to california. Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism at the johnstown flood of 1889. The impact of the triangle shirt waist factory fire in new york city and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today we are discussing David Oshinskys Pulitzer Prizewinning book polio an american story. You all received questions i posted. And im really interested in this topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s, and thats when so much of this book takes p
The nuclear deal 2 years ago and so members of the council are arguing particularly russia and china that the United States doesnt have standing to make such a claim because it withdrew from the deal unilaterally it cant now come back and claim to invoke part of that so theres no clear Legal Mechanism to settle this dispute in the council if the United States decides to go forward in that way this could be really. To mortuus time for the Security Council and theres no clear mechanism for resolving the dispute aljazeera as i said bay has been following the story from tehran he says iran of the treating the failed bid as a win for the u. S. Even going into this vote at the United Nations to extend the arms embargo we had had some strong rhetoric and language coming out from the iran president Hassan Rouhani had warned of a crushing response if the arms embargo had been extended from mr divides the reef had said that the u. S. Approach was feckless and unpredictable and now weve had rain