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 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
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Approved the bell in principle. They centre for us. And festivals and very sad news from the world of said we could not open the paralympics . Yes, this is a story Withdrawal Agreement and we did they which the bbc has covered right from said we could not get rid of the backstop and we did, and they said the start, the belgian wheelchair racer was the 100 metres champion in we could not get a new deal and we did. Questions about the questions 2012, silver medallist in rio in questions about fracking. As a 2016, so come on the surface, a watchdog raises concerns. I have the successful para athlete, 2016, so come on the surface, a successful pa ra athlete, but 2016, so come on the surface, a successful para athlete, but what many people did not see was the sport with jane to go. Some sad co nsta nt many people did not see was the constant excruciating pain suffered by Marieke Vervoort every single day. She said that she had actually signed euthanasia papers as far back as 2018 because sh
Now becky quick. We begin with lobster the delicacy is in high demand worldwide, especially in china but like most food exports, the u. S. china tariff war is squeezing the lobster business like a lemon our Contessa Brewer found maines lobster dealers are feeling the pinch. Its this weeks cover story reporter stephanies space is small but the Lobster Company does big business in lobster. I primarily export lobster. Reporter and when the Maine Lobster industry worked to open up china markets, stephanie was right there. Investing, expanding, ramping up to meet the newly voracious appetite for u. S. Lobster. We were doing about half of our business with china. And this place wouldve been rocking and rolling. We had basically 24hour operations reporter but since last summer, stephanies sales have plummeted by half. Shes cut hours and workers. The impact of a trade war and china slapping tariffs on american lobster july 6th, 2018, it all came to a screeching halt and we didnt really sell an
Will get tomorrow, and what you can expect as we look ahead to the weekend. What you can expect for the roadways this morning is mostly travel times in the green with the realtime traffic center. The only exception is the Altamont Pass. The dry time is in the yellow. It is not terrible, especially this time of morning. It is only a 35 minute ride. Elsewhere, you look good no matter where you are going. Lets take a live look out to 24. Plenty of people are headed westbound towards San Francisco. Nothing to report as far as major issues, accidents, orthodontic just plenty of company. Lets take a look at the san mateo bridge we have plenty of company in the westbound direction. Not as much as yesterday. It is still relatively clear. Very few brake lights in the eastbound direction looks better than that. The bay bridge stacking up in the cash lanes. The meeting lights will turn on probably in the next 15 or 20 minutes. In the meantime, just passed here, you are good to go. We are watching