Years after the november 2015 attacks. There are still painful memories and deep divisions. And in spoilage option for both all Mohamed Salah has tested positive for corona virus, while on International Duty. The news comes out. The liverpool striker was set to play togo and an africa cup of nations qualifier. He denies nations is warning that fighting between the Ethiopian Military and to great Regional Forces can spiral out of control and that war crimes may have been committed. The conflict is raising fears of regional repercussions impacting neighbors, eritrea, sudan, and somalia, as well as the african union, which has its headquarters in ethiopias capital. A mystery International Says scores of civilians have been massacred during the fighting of the Human Rights Group is unclear who is responsible. Some witnesses have blamed forces loyal to the to great Peoples Liberation front. The u. N. Is warning of a humanitarian emergency as more and more people sleep. More than 4000 people
Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in 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 ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
The u. S. Election result suffers more setbacks this time in pennsylvania and michigan. Not backing down thousands of people protest in thailand. Does the government has to have proposed amendments to the constitution . And the sports in mens cricketers and ansell returned to play in pakistan for the 1st time in 16 years. Welcome to the new u. S. Drugmaker. Pfizer plans to request emergency approval for its covert 1000 vaccine in the coming days. This after results from its trial show that its safe and around 95 percent effective in all age groups that seem developed with german partner has shown consistent results across the demographics with no major side effects. Lets get the very latest from our correspondent, joe castro, who is live for us in wilmington, delaware, really encouraging noises coming out from pfizer for the back of Companies Like madonna saying there that seem to it has a very high success rate. Thats right, so this is very encouraging news, but the irony is that thes
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Track, everything proves out what, what it appears to be. We could be looking at approval within days after that midair nose, basically one week behind that. And general perna his from operation work speed that will ship within 24 hours of f. D. A. Authorization. So we could be seeing both of these vaccines out and getting into peoples arms before christmas. But our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett says its still unknown. How many people will be among the 1st to receive any approved vaccine . Well, you know, that is still been left unclear and we know that it will be 1st responders. We know that will be the most vulnerable but 1st, the vaccines have to be approved and then made and the production takes time. And then of course, in order to know that the society can go back to the way it was, you need millions of americans to be vaccinated. So the timeline, even though we are hearing that the 1st vaccines could be given by the end of the year, doesnt mean suddenly that come 20