Pandemic, essential workers in the United States have continued in their daily jobs to care for and protect americans, to produce and deliver food and essential goods, and to uphold our nations Critical Infrastructure. These men and women, our moms and dads, brothers and sisters, are putting the livelihoods of their fellow americans ahead of their own. Each and every morning despite the pandemic, they wake up and they go to work. In this fight against the invisible enemy, the critical logistics operators, the supply workers, medical professionals, and many others who are on the front lines responding to coronavirus could not be more important to our victory. They truly are our heroes. Folks, our nation cannot weather this pandemic without our essential workforce. They first and foremost deserve our gratitude. So today we want to say thank you. Thank you to our doctors, our nurses, and our Health Care Workers who see firsthand the seriousness of this disease yet put their own health and
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Microbes as well but because of the writers we have here, a Science Writer for the atlantic, author of the new book, great new book called multitudes of the microbe i am and those of the panel and here is carl zimmer, Science Writer for the New York Times and author of many books including the recently a planet of viruses. Im the author of a book called pandemics which is about how microbes cause pandemics in the past and in the future and all of these books are going to be for sale by barnes and noble and we will be signing them after the session at the signing table h. , so hope you can come join us for more discussion. First, before we l start, id le to ask if anyone here actually a microbiologist . We cant make anything up. [laughter] i think it is an interesting thing to talk about microbiolo microbiology. We thought about the microbes mostly as the malevolent intruders that have to target the position with military might. They were the ones that would grow in a dish in a lab and