And law, National Nonprofit exits an adjunct professor at stanford. Hes best known for his work on sensory substitution, time perception, brain plasticity, and neural law. Livewired his new book presents new standings in his lab, from dreaming to wearing devices that revolutionize how we think about the senses. He will discuss by packers, humans using echolocation and the present and future of ai. I am so excited to hear dr. Eagleman talk today. Welcome, david. The floor is all yours and i will be back in a bit to modera some q a. Great, thank you, beth. Its a great pleasure to be here. I have been to politics and prose in the past and so i couldnt be there this year but im pleased you can join me this way online today. I want to tell you a little bit give a brief oveiew about some of the main themes and ideas in the book and then we are going to take questions. Lets start with this question. How many of you have ever seen a baby zebra get born . So it can run in about 45 nutes. It wob
On facebook, youtube, twitter and from axios. Com. With theollow along axios on twitter. We will unpack how the pandemic has changed the trajectory of healthcare and what is expected over the next four years. Is dr. Robertt blendon, professor of Health Policy at the school of Public Health. He is joining us from boca raton. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Theets Start Talking about Number One Health topic right now, the coronavirus. Lets talk about equities and disparities. Can you outline what are the best things we can do from a policy perspective to help reduce the pain of the pandemic and to reduce the inequities associated over the next few months . Dr. Blendon first i want to be very cautious. A number of things are done under an emergency basis over the next six months. A lot of like and hispanic americans could die. There are a lot of things we can do about race inequity that are really important. I am really worried about the next six months. Americansent black and latino am
Financial Services Subcommittee hearing on creating a federal pandemic Risk Insurance program. Even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves, and to admit themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulation accompanying house rest 965, staff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. When not recognized to avoid any background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and the corn to this remote hearing. History is entitled insuring against a pandemic, challenges and solutions for policyholders and insurers. And i now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. According to the Congressional Research service, 110 Million People worldwide could enter a state of extreme poverty due to the Global Economic contraction, and here in the United States 657 Million People have filed for Unemployment Insurance since march of this
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer we take you live to indiana where Governor Eric Holcomb is giving an update on the states response to the coronavirus pandemic. We join this news briefing in common in progress. We need to be there to help answer the calls they have. And i think that our Hospital System is incredibly wellpositioned to do that. They have been amazing partners from the very beginning of this pandemic. Abigail with the brown county democrat. Good afternoon, governor. Happy thanksgiving to both of you. I have two questions. I think they are probably both for dr. Box p i first question is which days data were used to inform the decision to change counties color statuses today . We see for brown county, test results from november 19 to march 4 our preliminary. We know test results were taking as long as a w
A couple votes coming up including one for President Trumps nominee for the National Credit Union Administration board. You are watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. A senator madam president . The presidin officer senator from kentucky. Paul palm i ask that the folling be granted floor privileges, calem case, lucy, carlin gupta, and gab brie ella mastra. Thpresiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 58, the nays are 35. The notion nomination is confirmed. Under the prious order, the motion to reconsid be considered made and laid upon the table and the predent will be immediately notified of the senates action. A se