Its an author discussion on the potential longterm effects covid19 will have on society. Hello, im brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. We are here today with authors paola giordano, Mark Honigsbaum and sonia shah. Im gonna read very brief bios. Mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. And the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. His current elector at City University london. Paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally bestselling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. His essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and help shift Public Opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. Sonia shah is prizewinning author of pandemic trackin
Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
Cheaper auction it could be a cheaper option. Tom we will talk about that with sam fazeli. Over here it is about the hospitalization. It has been an extraordinarily difficult pandemic weekend fulltime america tries to move on, and someone moving on is the president elect with news from bloomberg overnight on appointments to be had, i believe, tuesday. Even while the president contests in wisconsin. Francine we will have a full round up of u. S. Elections as well. Lets get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika another Promising Development in the fight to end the coronavirus pandemic. The vaccine developed by the university of oxford as astrazeneca prevented a majority of people in a large trial from getting the disease. It stop and average from 70 from falling ill, below the high bar set by pfizer and moderna, but effectiveness did rise to 90 for one of two dosing regimes. Joe biden plans to name anthony en as secretary of state. When he was when biden was Vice Preside
Coverage, theres a link to each debate question and answer, see social media feeds on debate happening in reaction and watch our president ial debate video from the cspan video library. Next lawmakers questionse pharmaceutical of the pricing and drugs, the price increase at a rate that far exceeds inflation among other issues. This is just under four hours. [silence] [silence] welcome to todays hybrid learning, pursuant to house rules, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending position, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a facemask unless they are speaking, members who are not wearing a facemask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person, you will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on a monitor in front of you when you are speak
Mean for and why but thats what we talk about today hello welcome to eco india. Coming to you from my makeshift home studio here in mumbai the city of google was created in 1979 only 40 years ago from what was primarily a rule. Its proximity to demi short huge potential for its development to me its one of the biggest corporate hubs in the country but surrounded by the glitz of modernization is a biodiversity hot spot sandwiched by the expanding city fighting to think of and kept alive. Its hard to believe that this lush field in a score of the monger buying his fondest lies within an hours drive of the worlds most polluted capital that one of the forest tribal residents fights hard each day to protect this clean jewelry. Once a month. I have been a dark forest ever since i was a little boy could be because i am from the monger community because i was a little different from the other kids that you do my physical disability because. At the age when all the other children were running a