Reached the peak yet. What does that tell snull guest two things. One, when we hear we have yet to reach the peak, it definitely brings a level of fear because we dont know where that peak is going to be and weve been talking a lot about testing and i should caution that all the numbers that were talking about have a big asterisk next to them because we really dont know that the number of confirmed cases reflects anything close to the number of cases that they there actually are in our communities. It could very well be given the number of asymptomatic carriers there are that there are far more cases that we currently have. In fact, do i believe there could be smoldering dayses of infections in communities all around the country. We jewels havent picked up on that. The second thing we hear about not reaching the peak. We have to remember that it may not be a bad thing because weve been talking about this concept of flat engine the curve. The flattening the curve, the idea that social d
Nursing home community. We have worked to dramatically scale up our Testing Capacity because we believe testing is crucial not only to our current efforts to understand and slow the spread of this disease, not because it will play a Critical Role over the longterm as we work to decisions around reopening parts of our community. We are continuing to make progress. 126,551cted a total of tests. Tests yesterday were conducted at 28 sites across the mouth across the commonwealth. This makes massachusetts one of the leading states in the country with respect to testing. We are grateful to our colleagues in the medical community. These laboratories are a big part of massachusetts progress on this front. That includes quest diagnostics, the broad institute, and many other public and private sector hospitals. Their contributions and partnerships are another example of how massachusetts nation leading healthcare and innovation leaders are helping us respond to this unprecedented outbreak. In ma
Good morning. Today we are going to provide an update on covid19 testing, personal protective equipment, Hospital Capacity, and a rundown on the approach we have taken to supporting our nursing home community. Worked towe have dramatically scale up our testing capacity. Thats because we believe testing is crucial not only to our current efforts to understand the spread of this disease but because it will play a Critical Role over the longterm term as we work through decisions around reopening parts of our community. We are continuing to make progress. As of yesterday we conducted a , total of 126,551 tests. Testsncludes a new 4500 conducted yesterday which were conducted at 28 sites across the mouth across the commonwealth. This makes massachusetts one of the leading states in the country with respect to testing. We are grateful to our colleagues in the medical community. These laboratories are a big part of massachusetts progress on this front. That includes quest diagnostics, the bro
And now im book tv we would like to highlight some Program Summer archives of focus on pandemics. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org using the Search Button at the top of the page. First, in 2000 on cspans book note Program Science journalist talks about the history of influenza, specifically the 1918 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Hadley thought much about the fluid just seemed like something that came round every year people get sick and then they get better again. Ive never really been interested in it at all within a few years ago im a reporter for the new york times, wrote an article for the times about a really miraculous discovery. There is a guy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and he was writing and that technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who died in 1918. And that lung tissue, there were still fragments of the virus that it ki
About the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people would get sick and then better again. Within a few years ago, i a ima reporter for the New York Times and i read an article about a miraculous discovery there was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was reporting in a technical journal of Science Magazine that he somehow managed to there were fragments of the virus that killed him and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in history. It affected us on many people te that have Something Like that came by today, it would kill more people than the top ten killers got together, 1. 5 million, something of that mortality rate. Had i just found out by looking at the papers for the centers for Disease Control that 99 of the people that i did the epidemic were under age 65, so it was an astonishing devastating epid