Welcome. We are virtual at the book shop. Its good to be here. To our audience. We want to let them know. For those o you have that have not got connors book. I dont think w have ever talked about getting some signed book rights. Welcome everybody. I will introduc maries. And he was born and raised in new orleans. He published his debut novel we cast a shadow in 2019 and it w a finalist for the pen open book awards. The first novel of prize. An asstant professor of creative writing and he is also the 20202021 writer and resident. With the university of mississippi. Welcome back to the Garden District bookshop. It is my honor to introduce our author today. Here is connor town oneil. Connor towne oneill. He works as a producer on the npr podcast. He now lives in tuscan alabama. Congratulations connor. We cant wait to hear more about it. For this portion i know you are interested in reading some of the work that are gathered here today. I will just sit here at the outset. Deftly get your
Good to be with you. Miss woodruff lets start with the basics. Where are we right now in the country in the battle against covid19. If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci i would say it is a mixed bag. The numbers are very serious and very concerning. We have had now over 185,000 death, sixplus million infections. The country, a large country, there are some areas doing very well right now, got hitarly those that badly early on. For instance, the new york metropolitan area has for at least one month now been less than 1 test positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly what we saw in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open up the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000, we are back now to 30000 and 40,000. In those states, they are starting to level off and come down which is a really good sign. We are setting to see the beginning of surge
I know you are there. Dr. Fauci i am here, judy. Good to be with you. Miss woodruff lets start with the basics. Where are we right now in the country in the battle against covid19. If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci i would say it is a mixed bag. The numbers are very serious and very concerning. We have had now over 185,000 death, sixplus million infections. The country, a large country, there are some areas doing very well right now, got hitarly those that badly early on. For instance, the new york metropolitan area has for at least one month now been less than 1 test positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly what we saw in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open up the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000, we are back now to 30000 and 40,000. In those states, they are starting to level off and come down which is a really good s
Happened with astrazeneca, what is your best estimate for when a safe vaccine will be available . Dr. Redfield one thing i have learned is the cdc director, i business. The opinion im in the data and signs of it. What does the data and signs suggest . Dr. Redfield based on enrollment right now that is going on with the pfizer and moderna, that it is conceptual that they will have enough data to present it to the fda for evaluation somewhere before the end of october and the end of november. The reason i cannot be more specific is because these trials are event driven trials. They are 100 dependent on how much covid occurs in the volunteer population. If it is a lot of these individuals having to get covid independent of what group they are in, and the potential for them to have enough events if the vaccine is very efficacious will be in the october timeframe. If the vaccine is 50 efficacious, it might be in the late november timeframe. If there are fewer events and it vaccine, andd mig
Services secretary alex azar. He sat down with Research America to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and response, preparing for the flu season and Research Priorities within the department. This is 15 minutes. In your view should be the hhs led Research Agenda as the nation seeks to understand more about what has happened during the pandemic and what kinds of efforts should be sustained afterwards . Provenar i think has to be a valuable part of the covid response. This is such an unprecedented disease and its impact on the Health System is so unique. We are really learning. You can see we are learning how to treat patients with covid so much better as the time has progressed over the last several months. One of the key things we are doing as a funding opportunity with investigations as you mention, telemedicine and also treatment pathways and protocols in the idea would be to Fund Investigations to get information out on a short four to six month timeframe so we can replicate that and