Tonights presentation please join me in thanking them. [applause] and now to introduce our speaker for this evening who will tell you, Leeanna Keith is at the Collegiate School for boys in your city she is author of the untold story of the glass tower and most recently present article of the civil war the publication had this to say, sense of detailed accounts radicals and republicans at the roots for the civil rights movement. And socalled radical republicans. [inaudible] mainstream american and during the civil war. Please join me in welcoming Leeanna Keith. Cement thanks everybody to please forgive me for remaining seated. I just wanted tell you what happened to me i know you you want to hide broke my leg, which is a cement mixer pulled up beside me and sideswipe me and so i feel very lucky to be here at all. And i will be fine. So now im going to tell you the story about the civil war and after words all youre going to remember is i am that lady got hit by the symmetric. [laughter]
Centennial of world war i. In 1918, the people of combatant were relieved the fear of war was over. Yet another threat to life was reaching across the nation into homes and schools and hospitals, the flu. The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people worldwide than killed during combat during the war. Many records housed in the National Archives in the Washington Area and other many field locations document this outbreak in the United States, letters,reports, patient records, books, telegrams show the reach of the 1918 influenza epidemic to all parts of the nation. These records open a window to the world 100 years ago and show the human and societal cost of the pandemic. They not only allow us to look back in time, but look ahead to the information they contain may help guide present day inquiries and increase our understanding of the disease. Dr. Jeremy brown is an emergency physician and was the Research Director in the department of emergency medicine at the George Washington u
Joining us on the communicators is Andrew Marantz, a writer for the new yorker and the author of the book, easy social online extremist in the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having. The book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker, can you excite network and how it led to the genesis of the book . Guest around 2014, 2015 i was writing for the new yorker and its a magazine that allows people to roam and be generalists and go wherever they find interesting stories and something that i was finding interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political, and my mind at that time, it was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know what is true or important versus irrelevant or how to spend their time and so i was looking at this as a tech story and a business story and i was looking
As a Science Writer i should first start out by pointing out that viruses are microbes as well but it made sense to call this microbes, viruses and destiny because of our two writers. This is ed young and he is a Science Writer for the atlantic, author of a new book, i contain multitudes about the micro biomes. Thus the microbes of our panel title. Here is carl zimmer, Science Writer for the New York Times and author of many books including, most recently, a planet of viruses bid im an author of the book called pandemic which is about how microbes cause pandemics and all these books will be for sale by barnes noble and will be signing them after this session and signing table eight. I hope you guys can come join us for more discussion there too. First before we start id like to ask is anyone here actually a microbiologist . Okay, we have four. So, we cant make anything up. [laughter] correct us if we get anything wrong but i will just we never get anything wrong. Its a really interesti
After katrina, after disasters, when we are focused on the population, there need to be partnerships that exist between the Public Sector and the private sector to make sure that i continuity of care can sustain, so our partnership, our organization it designed to keep coordination and healthcare that old flowing after a disaster, can happen between the government and the private parallel sector. Portcrisis. What are the parallels from back in 2014, 2015 . Guest yes, i think one of the most important lessons from the Ebola Outbreak was the role of partnerships. A big part of the responsibility that our team had was to make sure that the u. S. State department was working with the who and working with the u. S. Agency on the coronation that needed to happen across government, with businesses, to make sure that the west african outbreak could be contained, and that whatever we could do to make sure that the logistics were able to flow could sustain, and i think that is a big part of what