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The committee will come to order. Without objection, chairs authorized to declare a recess at any time. Secretary ross is with us, hell be joining us momentarily. Ill recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then my friend from maryland. The census is constitutionally required. It is what insures that just as every vote should be counted, every person should be counted. This is a conditioned precedent for accurate redistricting and accurate reapportionment. The census is not only important for purposes of constituting our government, its also important for apportioning the resources and services of our government. So the census is vitally important for a number of reasons. It is also eminently predictable. There are a few things that can be foreseen quite like the census. It happens every ten years whether youre ready or not. So its incredibly important beginning with the fundamental truth of counting every one of our fellow citizens, and we know well in advance when its coming. S
You can watch dismiss other programs online at book theredoering booktv. Org. The gagersburg book festival continues on book testify. Science magazine recorder Meredith Wadman talks about the race to create vaccinations. Hi, everybody. Walk to the gaithersburg become festival. I am Sarah Jackson and im a proud resident and an epidemiologist the university of maryland. Gaithersburg is a city that proudly support this arts and humanities. Were pleaed to bring you this fabulous event, thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers when when you see them, say thank you. I have a few announcements. Please silence all of your guise device. Youre on social media, use the hash tag gbf. Your feedback is valuable. Surveys are available here the tone and on the web site. By submit think survey you will be entered two a drawing for a 100 vase gift card. Dr. Meredith wadman will be signing books after the talk. A quick word about buying books. This is a free event but it does
Right now, harlem right now, and find many, many people shooting up or using pills who are not white, who are not lower middle class people. This is an epidemic that affects all income groups, ages, races, demographics and thats largely looked past in the media, the in part because its easier for reporters to most reporters are white. Im white, im a report. And im speaking from experience. Most newsrooms most reporters are white, and i think white reporters feel more comfortable going to white neighborhoods to write about white drug addicts. Thats been my experience. I think if you saw more people of color in newsrooms you would see this aspect of the epidemic represented more fairly in the press. I wanted to cover that. That aspect of it. So im going to talk about an area in baltimore called oxyalley, a place i spent a lot of time writing about the addicts there and a place where many some of the drugs and many other drugs ended up. They dahl it oxial. Looks like any other blighted st
Oxford university and has written for the New York Times amongs could is current lay staff writer at Science Magazine. As an epidemiologist and a researcher in training i was excited to read her book, the vaccine race, signs, politics and human cost of defeating disease. The senators for a Disease Control and prevention considers vaccinations the number one Public Health achievement of the 20th century. Indeed vaccines have saved millions of lives. It is because of vaccinations that smallpox is eradicated and the scourge of other diseases such as polio, rue la and chicken box are a thing of the past. This is a story about great achievement in Public Health and about the men, women and children who happened make the vaccines possible. Throughout this book, cob tell prayer interviews with contemporary interviews keep these individual as i live own then page, dr. Wadman does not shire airplane from the uncomfortable truth in the history of vaccines. The race remind us its important we lea