The northeast and part of the country particularly the new york metropolitan area, the curve was like this. When you look at what we saw in the Southern States when we tried to reopen, the curve was also like this. Right now, the curve is like that. It is going up at a very rapid rate. And you looked in a most every single day, in fact gives you another record. Having said that you do not want people to get terrified. But you want them to understand that we can do something about that. By mitigation methods. And also, help is on the way. So we should not look upon this as a hopeless situation. And one of the things, when you get covid fatigue, which is understandable, that people just throw up their heads and say heck, we are not going to be able to do anything about it so lets do what we want to do, that is the wrong decision. Because vaccines are coming. And they are going to be available relatively soon. If we can hang in there with the mitigation methods. And implementing them. We
This in person on our aspen campus, we will have conversations between health advocates, artists, scientists, invo innovators. And today we have a conversation between lisa mosconi and on Womens Brain Health. Shes made it her lifes work to study the womans brain and a road map to diminish the risk of dementia. If you want to buy a copy well have a link in the chat. I would certainly recommend it, its fantastic. So as we begin to dive into this conversation, let me briefly and properly introduce our wonderful speakers. Lisa mosconi is professor of neuroscience in neurology and radiology at real Cornell Medical College where shes the founder and director of the womens Brain Initiative and associate director of the alzheimers prevention clinic. An adjunct faculty member o department of psychiatry at nyu school of medicine, a ph. D. In neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine. Her research i focused from the Early Detection of alzheimers disease in atrisk individuals espially women and how alzhei
Inside story of the generic drug boom, and im talking to you today from massachusetts. Isually based in brooklyn, new york, but we are hunkering down in cape cod this summer. My book is a true cme expoe of the generic drug industry, and takes the reader deep into that distant manufacturing plant in india and china that make most of americas lowcost medicine. Heavily reported over the course of ten years, the book follows several key characters, and industry whistleblower, and fda investigator as they begin to uncover widespread fraud in these manufacturing plants. The question is, what made you want to pursue this topic . I and in Investigative Journalism and i been at this for several decades. But in 2008 i got an unusual phone call that came from a radio show host on npr. He has a show called the peoples pharmacy. His name is joe and he called me with a tip. He said listeners were called into his Radio Program and complaining about their generic drug, the film having side effects of
Video, live and ondemand to follow the transition of power and President Trump and president elect biden with news conferences and events coverage at cspan. Org. Good afteron everybody and welcome to politics and prose live at lunch where we bring you our politics and prose are grammy during our lunch time hour. Im an Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of livewired by doctor David Eagleman. At any time during the event today you can click the link that i will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights books on pnps website. Yocan ask the author a questions afternoon by setting it to the q a box the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen and be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event this afrnoon. Doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a New York Times best selling author and he has the center for science and law National Nonpr
Transition of power. President trump, president elect biden, whose conferences and event coverage at cspan. Org. Thank you so much for being here. It is an honor to be here. I was delighted to read your book which i have decided. First book ive ever written. It must be challenging to create factual accounts of the pandemic, talk about that process. I can understand why people would think, why are you writing this . Im writing about the things we can fight about, i did really a step back, im not fighting about these as they unfold, not fighting about this or that government, im not talking on that but im standing back and saying okay, why a pandemic and why now . That is something to do because youve been reading my work, you know, ive been fighting a book, weve been saying this will happen, these are the viruses need to worry about what we need to do. So obvious the predictions were and we havent done all of the things we need to do so this was kind of the moment to repeat all of that