Dr. Birx pleading with americans to stay home, avoid simplest tasks trying to contain the spread. And Surgeon General providing an assessment of what country must endure in the next two weeks. This is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most of americans lives. This going to be our 9 11 moment all over the country. Lou as nation prepares for the worst, President Trump is expressing hope, tweeting this morning he sees light at the end of the tunnel. Steep rise in deaths in new york from wuhan virus seemingly leveling off, a hopeful sign that president social distancing guys lines are working in the mostly thamost lethal hot spe country new york, markets responding positively to the news, dow closing ahead, a big rally 1627, and s p gained 175, and market gaining 2 trillion dollars in market cap today. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sharing in some of president s optimism, but adding there is a real danger to being over confident too quickly. The 7 state still faces a dire medal
Rising tide and the winner of the francis prize for outstanding books on American History 1997. He is current New York Times bestseller is the great influenza. Hes here to talk about that with us today. Hes currently a consultant with the World Health Organization on the subject of influenza. When hes done speaking, if you would like to ask questions, there will be two microphones in the back of the room. You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease th
First National Book festival event. As we all collectively face the challenge of the pandemic the safety of our staff members, visitors scholars is our First Priority at the library of congress. We are following the cdc recommendations and guidelines and all of our buildings are closed to the public until further notice. However, it is the librarys mission to engage and connect with our users. So we been rolling out various programs virtually for parents and teachers, scholars, students, and everyone who could benefit, we hope, from our resources online. So please visit our website llc. Gov for more useful information not only about whats going on currently, but also things you could use during this time. Now to our events, we will be joined by bestselling author john m berry who will be discussing his book, the great influenza, the epic story of the deadliest plague in history. He will be joined in conversation by mr. David rubenstein, cochair of the National Book festival and author
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Men mentally and physically because for all going through it was what we know about a lot of things whats the effect on us. Well this is actually studied in rwanda which had the longest largest quarantine ever and that 60000000 people one point down to 11000000 quarantine for 11 weeks just released this week as a town the question and we looked at the emotional press go all being the number one thing they noticed over and over was depression i mean in a large says a population we are hardwired to be social were supposed to be out and about our brain grew the size that it grew so we can process each others faces are hear the voices you dont need to go hunting with a big brain many that connect with each other and thats why we have a big brain and so its very difficult to spend prolonged periods of time out of sorts and out of touch with each other i actually worry especially for the older population because we know connectivity is critical there and theyre the ones most at risk but they