American history tv continues now with a look at the influence of religion on u. S. Politics and Foreign Policy in the 20th century. From purdue university, this is an hour and a half. Thank you all for coming. Im ronit stahl. Ill be chairing this roundtable today. Ill give a brief overview of how it came to be and what well talk about and quickly introduce our group. Then well get started. 15 years ago in is your mike on . There we go. Thank you. Theres a switch on the mikes. 15 years ago in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religions continuing importance contains analysis. In political history religion has retained in butlers evocative term, a jack in the box view. Today our roundtable will address how religion matters in american political history and well do so in three ways. First ill each panelist to focus on a way in which religion matters. That is in their own resear
Of harvard the dean medical school. Of the reportr from last september, giving a grim warning of the impact of the pandemic. The phone lines are open. 202 7488000 if you live in the eastern or central time zones. 202 7488001 for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones. A line set aside for medical professionals, doctors, nurses, emts, 202 7488002. Thank you for joining us. We begin with the numbers, courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Around the world, 3. 6 million confirmed cases and the global death toll approaching 257,000. Is joining us. Y he is the dean of Harvard Medical School. I want to start with a story you were quoted in in the wall street journal. You were working with chinese doctors privately for best practices and treatment. Dr. Daley we are. The current pandemic respects no international boundaries. Medicine and science are forces for International Diplomacy that transcend politics. In late january, when it was clear that the virus was ravaging china, coll
Respiratory pathogen pandemic. It was written in september last year at the request of the world health and the world bank in one a professorthors is of epidemiology and Environmental Health at Johns Hopkins university, also a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for health security. Thanks very much for being with us. Thanks for have me, i appreciate it. What did you find out last september, and would it come through come to fruition in . May of this year . The purpose was to address the possibility of there being a pandemic caused by fastmoving respiratory virus. By a fastmoving respiratory virus. The idea was it could spread quickly and potentially affect multiple countries at once, and what should preparedness look like in that scenario was so many places are affected at the same time . The availability of resources would be limited and it would be every country for itself. What we found is we would probably have not a medical countermeasure like a drug or vaccine to combat t
And if you missed any coverage, watch anytime ondemand, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Approaching 257,000. Is joining us. Y he is the dean of Harvard Medical School. I want to start with a story you were quoted in in the wall street journal. You were working with chinese doctors privately for best practices and treatment. Dr. Daley we are. The current pandemic respects no international boundaries. Medicine and science are forces for International Diplomacy that transcend politics. In late january, when it was clear that the virus was ravaging china, colleagues from china reached out to us asking for help. It was a time when there was tremendous tension between our countries. Our government was struggling. Channelse not formal for communication. The centers for Disease Control was not involved in china. The National Institute of health was rebuffed. Because of personal connections, we linked to our chinese colleagues and began working together. In those early times, they were reaching out
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