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Questions in realtime on Facebook Live and youtube live, so extend us your questions right now and well get chatting. Good afternoon, doctor. Thanks for joining us. My pleasure, liz. Thanks for having me on. So doctor, for people who are just joining us right now, as theyre starting to put their questions in, tell us a little bit about what the fda has announced today regarding hydroxychloroquine. For many of us in the field, its kind of about time, i think we were all surprised that it got an eua designation in the first place. Eua emergency authorization, theres enough evidence the drug actually works. We never really had enough evidence. It was only in the test tube in a petri dish that killed virus but never in a human and i think more than three studies now that havent been rerbuked shows this doesnt work. How much of a change to revoke this emergency use . Are we surprised by it . I think were not surprised by it. A lot of people in the scientific community, actually happy becaus
She is a former senior fellow with the Ford Foundation and advisor to the world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work and new book, being human. She will be in conversation with our very good friend Pamela Edwards and abc news anchor of the morning addition. Duty and pam, the screen is yours. Andy, this new age of social distancing is great to see we can get it done. Duty, it was an honor to read your book. It is a running theme in the book, how often people tell you they should know they had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made. In fact, thats where i want to start, to give people a perspective and i wanted you to compare and contrast what it was like when you are a young person pick you up in the book talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What it was like to be a person coming into the world then with a disability a
Into the and i demonic young dictate dictator could not be more timely. The book provides insight into who kim jong un is, what makes him tick and what to tell up at night. The book has earned wide praise from among the leading thinkers and former policy practitionersdealing with north korean issues and were fortunate that they will for the next hour with us down what we need to know about how north korea operates , who jung pak who kim jong un is and what is going on in north korea so welcome them to this conversation. They both areformer intelligence analysts who represent the best of their previous professions. They each were tremendous colleagues while in government and they are tremendous friends now. In addition to being deeply informed , kind and deadly smart, they are also a ton of fun so before i turn it over to jung and sue, we are collecting many questions from members of the audience and welcome you to send more. Do so by sending an email to events at brookings. Edu or via
Business. So on to the main event from 2013 to 2017 to he has been busy from joe biden on colon 18 what citizens could do. Im so sorry this is meant to be interpreted but it is breaking up because youre speaking so quickly. Please start over. As the 19th Surgeon General of the United States and is the author of tonights book and uncovered 19 doctor murphy and with michelle obama. And with those interpreted services and with the signing. Thank you so much. This is a joy way to be here someone that i admire so greatly especially to talk about this book one of the most important books i have read in a long time and totally under chant on change my understanding partially meaningful so im thrilled to be here today. Thank you for indulging me this way. [laughter] you are the Surgeon General of the United States of america. You written a memoir or tell all or leadership book but instead you wrote a book about loneliness arguing it is a serious problem here and around the world. Why did you d