Its an author discussion on the potential longterm effects covid19 will have on society. Hello, im brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. We are here today with authors paola giordano, Mark Honigsbaum and sonia shah. Im gonna read very brief bios. Mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. And the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. His current elector at City University london. Paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally bestselling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. His essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and help shift Public Opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. Sonia shah is prizewinning author of pandemic trackin
A single civilian. This is contradicted by the team p. L. S. Leaders account. They say that civilian casualties have been high. They say that civilians were targeted in government airstrikes, something that the government side denies. Weve also heard from the red cross in macquarie, thats the regional capital, the city of about half a 1000000 people. They say that about 80 percent of the people in hospitals there have trauma injuries or they have, they havent said how those injuries have been sustained. But they will say said that theres a serious shortage of essential medical supplies and a shortage of body bags. A Funeral Service for Top Iranian Nuclear scientists. There has been held in the capital to her and he was killed on friday. Irans leaders are blaming israel and say they all retaliate. Chinas Foreign Ministry has rejected calls from the astray and Prime Minister to apologize for an inflammatory tweet over war crimes allegations. The tweet sent by a Foreign Ministry spokesman
Military leaders and u. S. Allies and the senior figures in trumps. Republican policy have all warned of the dangers of putting too many troops out before the conditions are right. I think its extremely important here in the next couple of months. Not to have any earth shaking changes with regard to defense and foreign policy. Think up or ship, it is drawdown, and either afghanistan or iraq would be a mistake. Well, lets not get the view from iraq al jazeera somehow to feltons and back that the reduction of u. S. Troops in iraq to 2500. 00 is not that significant in light of the drawdown that already took place earlier this year. In january, there were 5000. 00 troops present in country that number was reduced to 3000 as of september and of course, the political and security context that precipitated this reduction was rather complex. Back in january, we had the u. S. Assassination of iranian general custom still in miami, as well as other iraqi officials, which prompted the parliament
Disease including severe disease in people who receive. Its really just a milestone though we have a lot of work ahead of us. Knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generating more data, follow it safe. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacture. Alan fisher has more from washington d. C. So heres a little bit of good news. 1st of all pfizer announcing last week that they had a vaccine that was more than 90 percent effective. Far more than many of the experts had predicted they would get in the 1st stages of testing here. I know we have a 2nd company saying that they have a vaccine that they can get out to people, probably 20000000 doses by the end of the year, going to people who are front line workers or noise, most at risk with ineffectiveness in the early tests of more than 94 percent. So its been difficult for many people to get through this period, but there is
Disease and that this task force will be working with state and local officials to allow for schools and businesses to reopen so this is a clear agenda promise that was made on the campaign trail by joe biden and Camila Harris that they would make this a top priority but make no mistake about it there will be other Top Priorities for this Transition Team as well including how to hit the ground running following inauguration to do a number of the trumpet ministrations policies including rejoining the Paris Climate Accord rejoining the World Health Organization and even on doing parts of the travel ban for a handful of muslim majority countries so its very clear in the statement being made by this team is that they want to have drastically different policies beginning on day one. 0 meanwhile donald trump is still refusing to concede defeat his team is preparing legal challenges to some of the counts in battleground states that favored biden that are republican and former president george