Reached out and began speaking with the u. S. Public Health Service in january because we get began thinking about how we document the story, so it has been a slow process for us and we ramped up since we have come home, to think about collecting. Steve at what point did you pandemic would stretch into the summer and into the fall and potentially the winter . We definitelyns, have thought about the difficulties that are inherent in making a vaccine and so we this pandemicre would last if her amount of time, that we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. What is dont know happening, as you know, and so we are still taking things week by week in the museum. What do your job duties and how has it changed over the last few months . I oversee historians of medicine and science, and we have been planning an exhibit on the history of medicine for the museum. We started that four years ago, so when the pandemic was beginning, we were very deep into the
I wanted to highlight that intimate moment behindthescenes and the friendship that did transpire between a lot of the indian performers and cody. Learn more about the national oneum of American Indians american artifacts. Here on American History tv. Here at the American Museum of history, let me begin with the pandemic and how it has impacted the museum and your division in particular. We are working mostly. Our Museum Closed in march, but we began thinking about the pandemic in january. We are a division of medical historians and we tend to follow the news pretty carefully, especially news about Public Health. So we actually reached out and began speaking with the Public Health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we hav
Health service in general arithmetic as we begin thinking collect the could story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we have definitely thought about the difficulties inherent in making a vaccine and we were pretty sure this pandemic would last a fair amount of time and we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. They were keeping things week by week in the museum. What have you been doing the last few months . We were planning a history of medicine on the museum. When the pandemic was beginning, we were actually very deep into the planning part of it and meet again to think about changing our exhibits. That meant that we needed to think about collecting related to covid19. We would need to do that anyway because we do collect objects but now it became an imperative