Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
Dean of the cathedral. On the behalf of the bishop of the diocese of washington and all of us who serve this cathedral, welcome we are so glad you have decided to join us for this important conversation this evening. Convening conversations, bringing people together to discuss some of the most important issues of the day [inaudible] priorities since 2008, the nancy and Paul Ignatius program has 8 given the cathedral [inaudibl] y the nancy and Paul Ignatius fd wasta established by their children, david, sarah, amy and audie. Their friends and other relatives and as a recognition of their service and commitment to Washington Cathedral while we said goodbye last year, her legacy lives on here at the cathedral and we are so pleased to have paul as the mainstay of the cathedral community. Not to mention that this years ignatius program is especially important because yesterday Paul Ignatius celebrated his 100th birthday. Happy birthday and god bless and keep you. Thank you for all that you
Been seriously injured and tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes the Weather Service describes fire conditions there as the most dangerous this year. People in germany are bracing for strict new rules aimed at slowing the spread of kovac 19 amid a big surge in infections chancellor merkel and state leaders will reveal on wednesday which will stretch and theyll impose and whats being called a lockdown light. As day w. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or visit our website w dot com. Or. Exploding all good shards of the atlantic. People are getting sick and hospital intensive care units are filling up the surge so strong here in europe that we could soon become the epicenter of this pandemic yet again to slow the spread ireland has started a total lockdown for a 2nd time in france and spain there are evening curfews again and in italy anger police clashing with protesters who say if the virus doesnt kill is this time the new lockdowns will bri
Joining us are doctor Joseph Kvedar of the American Telemedicine Association and Harvard Medical School along with our desk reporter Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider. Doctor kay, how long is telemedicine been around and what has been the growth or use of it in the past couple of months . Its been around since some people say the early 1920s and there was a lovely picture in one of the magazines now Popular Science they had a different name for it but shows a family huddled around the radio having a visit with the doctor on the other side. The concept has been around for a while and since the late 60s is when it got going and it puttered along for the next several decades until a couple of months ago when the push we told everyone in the u. S. That they had to stay in their home and we as clinicians had to take care of them so it blossomed overnight at that point. Host how can it be used today . Guest in a number of ways. I think the best uses, first of all, Mental Health is the num
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