Its an author discussion on the potential longterm effects covid19 will have on society. Hello, im brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. We are here today with authors paola giordano, Mark Honigsbaum and sonia shah. Im gonna read very brief bios. Mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. And the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. His current elector at City University london. Paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally bestselling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. His essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and help shift Public Opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. Sonia shah is prizewinning author of pandemic trackin
Parliament to outline new measures to curb the spread of the Coronavirus Thank lewd and extension of the partial lockdown until at least december 20th. Earlier she called on germans to make an enormous effort to try and improve the situation or thirtys here. Concerned as the number of new infections has filed to drop significantly, and the number of deaths has reached a new high. Well, joining me here in the studio is day w. Political correspondent, nina morning. Nina wanted to address German Parliament any minute now. What corona plan will she exactly present when lack of will and the 16 regional leaders of germany sat down for a really long session. Again, yesterday to discuss the next few weeks, because the idea here is to give people a bit of a breathing time around christmas. So how can we relax restrictions during the very important Christmas Period and still not risk infection numbers going to high. But shes about to speak now, so maybe shell explain to the German Parliament, wi
Of arizona and bank of america. Thank you, president robins and thank you all for coming here tonight. Its a thrill to see you here in Centennial Hall and as dr. Robbins said, we have ambitious plans to think about the arts in new and transformative ways here on campus. I am thrilled to be leading arizona arts and our new gateway to arts experience, assets and Educational Programs at the university of arizona. The core of our mission in arizona is to ensure that all students, regardless of major have meaningful experience in the arts and the david human can early change in transform five ways it is a prime example to integrating the arts into all aspects of the University Experience and to making it a true arts destination. Tonight, were in for such a treat as we hear from two Pulitzer Prize winners john medium in kenneth you can early as doctor robbins said, david will collaborate and work closely with faculty in aerz arz arts and the college of soech and behavioral, archive as an Inv
Director, kari watkins, discusses the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its sunday, april the 19th. Ahead, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has surpassed 700,000 in the u. S. And the death toll in our country, nearly 39,000. A number of states are beginning to bend the curve, leading to a new debate on how quickly can or should reopen. That is the starting point on this sunday morning. Join in on the conversation. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. Ut west, 202 7488001 is your state ready to lift restrictions . Tell us where you live and what you think. You can always send us a text , onage, 202 7488003 twitter, or on facebook. Look at the numbers around the world, courtesy of Johns Hopkins university with total confirmed cases at 2. 3 million and deaths around the world in excess of countries. Ths in 185 yet today at the white house and the Daily Briefing the president at this about sta
Notice about returning to capitol hill if legislation concerning the coronavirus was to be considered. Watch live coverage of the house on cspan. See the senate on cspan two. He is the author of the book the next pandemic. Departmentean of the and a professor at nebraska medical center. Thank you for being with us. Newst to begin with some from the washington post. Contamination at the cdc lab delays the testing rollout. Here are some of the details. Host that was also handling synthetic coronavirus materials. The scientists also said that the proximity deviated from accepted procedures and jeopardized for the virus. Cdc officials took more than a month to remove the unnecessary steps from the kids. Kits. I want you to unpack what that means in terms of testing and some of the Lessons Learned from these missteps. Guest thank you. Cdc is the premier Public Health agency in the world. Actually, many countries have renamed their Public Health agencies cdc, including in china , were cdc do