Author wrote about the last major pandemic a century ago, he will be joining us from new orleans. Also ahead, the Senate Holding a virtual hearing tomorrow, with key held officials including dr. Anthony fauci. Our phone lines are open. 202 7488000 202 7488001 202 7488002 thanks very much for joining us. We begin with the numbers, courtesy of don hopkins university. Around the world, more than 4. 1 lane cases of covid19. The death toll has exceeded more than 285,000. The book is called the great influenza, the story of the deadliest pandemic in history. Author john is joining us from new orleans. He is also a professor of tulane university. Thanks so much for joining us. Say its ah i could pleasure, but obviously the reason that brings us together is not fun. Thank for inviting me. Is one overriding apply from your book, to to 20 20, what would it be . A pretty easy question to answer. Tell the truth. People in authority need to be transparent and tell the truth. The countries that have
Pleasure, but obviously the reason that brings us together is not fun. Thank for inviting me. Is one overriding apply from your book, to to 20 20, what would it be . A pretty easy question to answer. Tell the truth. People in authority need to be transparent and tell the truth. The countries that have done that have done pretty well, not only Asian Countries like south korea and so forth, but also germany, austria. There are some countries that have done this right, and there has been much less confusion, much better organized, much better results. Much fewer deaths. Host what were the biggest mistakes of then president Woodrow Wilson in 1918 . Was entirely focused on world war i. The disease, the second wave, the serious wave in september 1918. He was not going to be distracted by anything, and he did not want anyone in the country distracted. He thought it would hurt the war effort. He never made a single Public Statement. They had created a propaganda , it was fake because they were
They jumped from animals to humans, spread rapidly around the world. Both are pretty lethal. Fortunately, this is much less lethal than the 1918 pandemic. However, considerably more contagious than the 1918 pandemic. Virulence, itless will still kill a lot of people. Steve how did the country react . Of course, a different time in terms of news, and how his word spread about how to protect yourself from what at the time was called the spanish flu . John it was a completely different situation because we were at war. Woodrow wilson created an , designed to win the war, with a Propaganda Machine and the architect of that Propaganda Machine wrote and false are just terms, all that matters is what the impact is. That was one thing when you are trying to keep morel up during the war, it was another thing when you are fighting and infectious disease. And because of that infrastructure when the pandemic arrived, National Public Health Leaders or outright lying about it there was no tony fauci
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As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it moved to the west side tennis center, which is where in 1957, Althea Gibson, the first black person, woman