The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people worldwide and killed in combat during the war. Many records from the National Archives in the Washington Area and other many field locations document this in the United States reporting of the 1918 influenza epidemic to all parts of the nation. Thes records open a window into the world 101 years ago to show us the societal cost of the pandemic they allow us not only to look back at that time but also as the information may help to guide presentday inquiries to understand the disease. An emergency physician and Research Director at the George Washington university here in dc now director of research at nih. The author of peerreviewed articles and books including the american handbook of emergency medicine. He recently received the nih directors award for supporting research of non object one addictive methods to obtain relief. From the new york journal of books is clearly a man that knows the flu not just the epidemiology but countless f
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Very important. This slide shows that we actually had a big success when it comes to managing High School Athlete concussions. In 20072008 academic year, 30 of athletes diagnosed with a concussion return to play in less than seven days which is a violation of return to play guidelines and disturbingly 8 return to play the same day they were injured, that is unacceptable. Look at how things have improved. Last year in 20142015, less than 2 return to the same day they were injured. This is a result of prevention. Not equipment prevention, but education and regulation prevention. Effective prevention in public health, we talk about three legs of a stool, equipment is one piece in terms of concussion, but educating individuals and providing good, strong policy policy based on evidence are the other two legs. I would love to come away from the efforts of this committee, incredibly important efforts, with the ability to do this work at the youth level. Currently, no one can give you this typ
Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The hearing also addressed Current Research and efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is two and a half hours. We are on a tight schedule today with votes. The morning and welcome to the oversight and investigation hearing. Were were here to continue the ongoing examination of concussions. The hearing follows an initial table we had in march but we had a constructive dialogue with leading experts on how to address the challenge of concussions. Well focus on youth sports, specifically the
The amount of data generated seems to be at the nominal. Is this useful for phenomenal. Is this useful for anyone else in the sport . Is a general manager interested in these performance statistics . It just seems like this has the potential for changing the way competition is handled by the how well youre able to manage these large data flows. Would you meant on it . Mr. Eggert i think general managers have an increasingly great interest in Data Acquisition and management and i think the sport is moving in that direction to be more databased and less just see how a person swings the bat. Its gotten so far i think theres espn Fantasy Sports analyst who is good at this you may continue to watch this hearing online at cspan. Org. Did you want to add to that . There are many that actually employee members of their look atstaff that will players and see how they play in certain environments and decide how they select. The entire concept of the movie money ball and how he was selecting team