American history tv, the National History center hosts a conversation on u. S. Gun rights and regulations. Watch American History tv tonight and over the weekend on cspan3. U. S. Schools are looking at how to safely reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. Educators spoke to members of the Senate Health committee about plans to decrease class size, continue Home Learning and schoolwide coronavirus tests to make sure students and staff are safe when they return to the classroom. Widespread testing not only helps contain the virus, it builds confidence that the schools are safe. U. S. Assistant secretary for health told our committee that there will be 40 to 50 million diagnostic tests available per month by september. Thats four to five times the number of todays tests and todays number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And dr. Francis collins who led the human genome project and leads the National Institutes of health, leads a shark tank enterprise at the nih t
Schoolwide coronavirus tests to make sure students and staff are safe when they return to the classroom. Widespread testing not only helps contain the virus, it builds confidence that the schools are safe. U. S. Assistant secretary for health told our committee that there will be 40 to 50 million diagnostic tests available per month by september. Thats four to five times the number of todays tests and todays number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And dr. Francis collins who led the human genome project and leads the National Institutes of health, leads a shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and accurate and inexpensive diagnostic tests. School covid plans should let the plans last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls warp speed, faster than weve ever done that before, but no one expects a vaccine this august. And the second half of the school year, schools should be bet
The number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And doctor Francis Collins who once led the human genome project and now leaves the National Institutes of health needs a competitive shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and extensive diagnostictests. Covid19 plans should last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls s work speed a, faster than weve ever done that before but no one expects a vaccine this august. The second half of the school year schools should be able to provide more tests, more treatments, better Contact Tracing and hopefully we should begin to have vaccines. It will likely be the fall of 2021 though before we begin toapproach normal. There are several reasons schools have an advantage in weproviding a safe environment for students and for faculty. One younger people have been less hurt by covid19 and older people. Although doctor county told our committee we sh
But trump remains defiant insisting he wanted nothing from ukraine and that the inquiry should and. Also students is still under siege at a Hong Kong University as the u. S. Congress approves a bill demanding china respect human rights and a new symbol emerges to represent the diverse groups of people behind the protests in chile. So more dramatic testimony has been delivered on the 4th day of the public. Pietschmann inquiry into u. S. President dont trump and just the past few hours weve heard from the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense laura cooper also david hale the under secretary secretary for Political Affairs but when asked what they knew about u. S. Military aid being withheld from ukraine now in her testimony cooper mentioned that ukrainian officials are asked about the stalled a as early as july 25th contradicting President Trumps defense that they had no idea anything was on hold my staff showed me 2 unclassified emails that they received from the state Department One wa
And its my honor to introduce the event with professor Amitai Etzioni whose book has just been published. Dr. Etzioni is a world famous, indeed legendary person, socialilpost whose over 30 books have made an enorm more impact on all to world hitches career began with a ba and ma in sociology from Hebrew University of jerusalem in 1954 and 1956 respectively. And a ph. D from the university of california berkeley in 1958. He taught at Columbia University before joining George Washington university in 1980 and and in 1993 the among his most influential bookses the act of society published in 1968, through his career professor etzioni maintained a high degree of visible as a public intellectual and contributed to he eats debates regarding bar and peace, with books such as winning without war, 1964. Two years ago he published avoicing war with china. His new book, response to the challenge faced by the liberal International Order from populism and spits that a new International Order is evo