Hello my name is the director of the wisconsin festival thank you for being here. I believe this is the seventh event and also the 30th of 32 events just today in the third day of this book festival. Thank you so much. I have seen many of you all day. [applause]. I could not be more pleased to be introducing megan phelpsroper. With her book unfollow. Were talking about her life and doubt and how you decide to leave or stay in how you defend yourself in this context is one of those conversations with religion that you need to be having so much more as a culture. I think it opens up so many doors for people and making herself a writer and activist. She left the Westboro Baptist church in november of 2012. And she knows about communication across ideological lines. At the age of five, eggen began protesting homosexuality alongside fellow members of the Baptist Church in topeka, kansas in this church was founded by her grandfather and consisted almost entirely of her extended family. The t
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People in the hospital, and, sadly, 152 deaths. We know that this disease includes an extra amount of sorrow, since loved ones cannot the at the bedside, and we continue to hold all of those suffering from this virus in our thoughts. Earlier this week, i laid out our path forward to a new normal , dependent upon testing, and i want to share some key updates about our work on that front. On testing first. North carolina has made great strides, but we have more work to do. We have conducted at least 73,000 tests, which is a long way from where we were a month ago. In fact, testing and our state has increased by 88 over the last two weeks, but we need testing to be more widespread, and we need to use it to give us a better indication of where we are in this fight. Today, we announced a partnership with three of our states medical universities, to use testing and tracing to help us determine how far the disease has spread in North Carolina. This research is part of a coordinated statewide
For a total of 25,000 a day by the end of the month. A longterm goal is 60,000 tests a day. Abc7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez live in the newsroom with details of the governors plan. Lyanne . Larry, if you ask me the headline today is clearly that the state will revamp testing. Were going show you some projected numbers in just a few. That will then determine when sectors of our economy will reopen. With that said, a lot of Business Owners and employees are disappointed but not surprised. California hospitals have not experienced the anticipated surge of covid19 patients. Guided by the number of empty hospital beds, governor gavin newsom said he would now allow hospit hospitals to perform elective surgeries. Tumor, heart valve, the need for people to gethe kind of care they need. If it gets delayed, it becomes acute. Any other decision to open parts of our economy will rely on two factor, testing and tracking the virus. The lack of swab testing has been a obstacle. Here are the number
On behalf of the american in enter enterprise, we will hear about her recent book how to raise a reader. She authored it with her colleague maria russo. So much of raising children these days seems to be about what we do not want them to do, keeping them away from dangers, real in virtual, no doubt this is a feature, perhaps a bug of her helicopter and age and i think this attitude fails to promote a sense of independence and kids. Not only do they not know how to walk down the street by themselves but they are also pretty much incapable of entertaining themselves at least without a device in hand. So for reasons both selfish, parents need a break and selfless, we know this is an important life skill for them, i think the Current Situation is pretty untenable. Our kids have trouble with any kind of unstructured activity but reading for pleasure is perhaps activity that has suffered the most. According to a recent analysis of the American Time study, the share of americans to read for p