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Theauthors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savanna welcome to and jean ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us and the focus for the last negroes at harvard and 61 years ago , harvard admitted 18 negroes and thats what we were called then and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted harvard. We were from all different parts of the country. North, south, east and west and we came from economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we heretofore they had been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time most guys would just go and do their four years and get out of town. We leave cameras but was different in the sense that we had numbers. 18 and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. We were able to become actually a force for change at harvard and harvard, we changed harvard and harvard changed us and that essentially what the book is about, its about our four years here and what happened before and
Two weeks will be banned from entering japan until there are exceptional circumstances. The government will advise japanese citizens to avoid all nonessential travel abroad especially to countries named in the new measures. The Ruling Liberal Democratic Party has also put together a draft stimulus package to cope with the Economic Impact of the pandemic. It says that the measures are larger than those taken in japan during the 2008 financial crisis. It proposes about 20 trillion yen or about 186 billion in fiscal spending. It says the government should establish a system of subsidies totaling about 9. 3 billion to help small and mediumsized businesses as well as freelancers. The draft also says households that lose out on income should receive Financial Assistance based on their size, but it doesnt mention how much. The government plans to finalize the emergency stimulus package as early as next week. Japan and the World Health Organization will cooperate on the development of vaccicin
Complexion of the approach that were going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, we had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, theres a few things that we can do with that. One of the things is when we make policy about what were going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly the areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what the pentraits of infection is there. We need to put a light on the dark spots we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data, and were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hot spots, that are not still h a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation, and you do the contact tracing. When you have a big outbreak, its tough to do anything but mitigation. We have
I want to just talk very briefly about two or three things. First the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach well be able to take. Testing was an issue. We had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of tests out there there are a few things we can do with that one of the things when we make policy poll what well do with the rest of the country particularly areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what penetration is there. We have to act policyize on data. And were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is, that the areas of the country, not hot spots, not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation and you do