Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
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Information on the crown of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at twitter dot com slash science. Scientists around the world are racing to find a vaccine against cars with 19 or at least a drug that can treat the illness theres no time to lose the number of new cases keeps rising and with it the death toll. But were not entirely at the mercy of the coronavirus apart from crucial measures such as cleaning our hands and keeping our systems we also says our very own defense mechanism our immune system its job is to recognize harmful substances and germs that enter the. Body and fight the intruders the stronger our immune system the better it can do its job the question is can it also protect us from cope with 19. Welcome to our special here on d w news i want to jones and dylan good to have you with us a healthy immune system is always important and it might just save your life now duri