As 1918 and then suddenly in 1997 this new flu emerged in hong kong and scientists discovered to their horror that rather than being incubated in a pig or a human being can call infected with several strands of the flu it jumped directly from birds to humans thats mike davis speaking in 25 on the threat of a flu type pandemic a thing in the own abreu world his warnings are arguably not taken seriously by policymakers think tanks and politicians is 25 book the monster at our door is now called the monster and is with a brand new preface and he joins me now from Los Angeles Mike welcome to going on the ground youve been on well i understand just take us through how you came to write to the new preface as the full horror of the pandemic we came up aarons the book the regional. Published right out to the operation in 2003 i think i wrote it in 2005 this is avian flu and at the time it looked like whos in a way faced with a pandemic flu the biggest disastrous is the 1980 spanish flu it was
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We are grateful to all of you for being here and for valuing the past, present and future of thoughtful reading and writing. The story that history can teach us a lot about how to live in the present and plan for the future. And perhaps no error in our history is more instructive to us right now than 1981 contagion ravage the world shuttering schools, closing businesses, and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became as known as 102 years ago is the spanish flu is Kathryn Arnold who poured over years of eyewitness accounts from eyewitnesses in the early beginning at places like a military base in kansas to its number of prominent american writers like John Steinbeck and kathryn and portauprince she read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology shes the author of several books about the history of london and she was published by Simon Schuster in 2015 shes joining us today from the uk, welcome. Welcome thank you for being
[inaudible] assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. Nd director of the health agencies. And Program Executive officer of Defense Health care and systems. T today, we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the president s budget for fiscal year 2021. We will have ce, members coming in and out. E are getting briefings on coindividual 19 covid19 as and there are other meetings going on but your full testimony is available. Last members had it night, like i did, to read through it. So well get started. Spectrum in the military Health Care System to benefit care, in many cases the justifications lacks adequate detail for the subcommittee to make informed decisions. And an update on the electronic system, m. S. H. Genesis. We look forward to hearing about these topics and more. To thank you for appearing before the subcommittee and now i want to recognize our distinguished mr. Calvert, for his comments. Mr. Calvert thank you, madam chairman. Thank