Everyone for being here this evening, you are going to supporting these amazing journalists and writers as those our bookstore by purchasing their copy of the book through us or by choosing to pay your way to the event. Every event especially in times like these so we cant see how much we appreciate it. Before we get started just a few things about how deep did thats critical tonight and just about the platform we are on. You can see youre free to use the chat been doing. Throughout the event is not a disturbance at all if you have any thoughts or anything, if you just want to give a shout out, feel free to. Not a disturbance at all. I encourage everyone to be kind and respectful to authors and each other but hopefully that should go without saying. Im going to give a short introduction here and turned over to Casey Sherman and david which are at that well have time for questions from the audience see concert thinking about in question jeff for these guys at which point ill come back o
For being here. Im a bookseller and events host at book line which brookline which is in brookline, massachusetts. We could be anywhere. And i wanted to get started by thank everyone for being here this evening, everyone who is supporting these amazing journalists, writers as well as our bookstores by purchasing their copy of the book through us or by choosing to pay your way after the event. Every event really does make a difference, especially in times like these. We cant understate how much we appreciate it. Just a few things about sort of how the event is going to go tonight and the platform. You can see the chat function as weve been doing, throughout the event, you know, its not a disturbance if you have any thoughts or anything, if you want to just give a shoutout. Feel free to. Not a disturbance at all. I, of course, encourage everyone to be kind and respectful, but hopefully that should go without saying. Im just going to do a short introduction here, and after their conversat
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Enough if we do it this way. Let us know in the chat box. A warm hello, happy to see so many of you. I want to start by thanking David Goldman, to switch, for me very new for all of us in the region of live stream. We are presenting that in partnership with our good friends at the public library. We are all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment. So many books conserve as antidotes and only one of those antidotes and we are sharing the next 45 minutes or our tonight and before introduce speakers in detail, and step aside or minimize or whatever it is we do, i want to say quickly, this fabulous book mengele unmasking the angel of death is available here at labyrinth or whichever is your nearest and dearest local bookstore. All of us in the independent bookselling world are trying to find a way through to the other side of this crisis. If you want to buy this book at labyrinth it will ship for free, place the order over the phone we will post to the chat box tha
Word signup box. While the house of representatives remains out of session due to the coronavirus pandemic, members of the House Appropriations subcommittee met on capitol hill to look at the virus. The hearing included testimony from former cdc director tom frieden and caitlin rivers from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security. This is 2. 5 hours. The hearing will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to the labor, health, and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee. Todays hearing is on the nations ongoing response to the coronavirus. Like all other efforts on the supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including my friend and Ranking Member congressman tom cole. Our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the cdc. From 2000 92016. Dr. Caitlin rivers, featured scholar at the Johns Hopkins center