Happy may day. Thank you for joining us this afternoon in helping us make this program a great success. We have had over 350 people register for this from across the country and from places as far away as japan. I think it is about 4 00 a. M. In japan, so im not sure if that person made it, but still impressive that program has that much reachle i has that much reach. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of the virtual crowd and the geographic spread, im sure there are some that are interacting for the first time. If you are not familiar with us, we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Were founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our state and nations history for the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing, we have been we have taken to hosting Virtual Events. We have Online Events planne
They give for joining us this afternoon. We have over 350 people registered across the country and as far away as japan its about 4 00 a. M. But that is still impressive it has that reach. I am the director programs and execution on exhibitions and community productions. A special welcome to anyone who might be attending a Virtual Program for the first time. With that geographic spread im sure there is a that is a tragedy for the first time the oldest Historical Society in america founded 1791 and dedicated to sharing the nations history. And through social distancing taking a course in Virtual Events and Online Events planne planned. The Program Next Week also friday at 2 00 oclock and the virtual tour of plymouth massachusetts and of course the 400th anniversary. I hope you can join us for that program as well there are Additional Details on our website. Today we have a Great Program we are joined by the associate professor of english at Washington University st. Louis with the phd a
Abc special correspondent dr. Nt alok patel. Dr. Patel, good afternoon, good to see you and thanks for joining us. Good to digitally see you as well. Yes, thats how we got to do it these days. Dr. Patel, lets start off by giving you a big picture of what we see in california. We hear cases are going up. What does that really mean . California is one of over 20 cases where theyve gone up including napa and marin county. Theres a wide variety of factors of why this may be. Some suspect it was related to memorial day, which was a little bit more than two weeks ago and people kind of getting quarantine fatigue and going outside and breaking some of those physical distancing measures, and so we just have to be a little bit more vigilant and see how this plays out as more businesses reopen. One of the things we continue to hear though is, oh, well, testing is really going cases are going up because testing is going up. What do you make of that . What i make of that is its multifactorial. Yes
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