About the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people would get sick and then better again. Within a few years ago, i a ima reporter for the New York Times and i read an article about a miraculous discovery there was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was reporting in a technical journal of Science Magazine that he somehow managed to there were fragments of the virus that killed him and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in history. It affected us on many people te that have Something Like that came by today, it would kill more people than the top ten killers got together, 1. 5 million, something of that mortality rate. Had i just found out by looking at the papers for the centers for Disease Control that 99 of the people that i did the epidemic were under age 65, so it was an astonishing devastating epid
Sent 266000 pieces of protective equipment to china. But i wont get into details to and fro on the sunday times story more details will be not so really simple. Yes why not going to get into the u. K. To foreign help did issue a statement later that day and every some eyebrows because its actually sounded like downing street spin offering a play by play reporter at the sunday times because one particularly interesting tidbit states that the equipment they provided to china was not from the pandemic stockpile and that china has since reciprocated our donation many times over between april 2nd of april 15th we received over 12000000 pieces of p. P. In the u. K. From china p. V. Becoming increasingly crucial to the whole Coronavirus Response here may be we dont have the real figures here maybe 20000 have died from grown over it why the briefing from downing street which has been there over the past few weeks against. It is a coming from Dominic Cummings well it does kind of seem like advi
Finally sampled fruit bats and found the viruses that killed the animals and they called it hendren a virus. It hasnt killed many people, doesnt pass from human to human but it is a knock on the door. A reminder to us of where these things come from, how they emerge, why they spillover some of the fact that they are not called independent cases that are part of a pattern in the pattern reflects things we humans are doing on the planet and they get into humans and in some cases because a local outbreak which is easily controlled or comes to a end on its own and in other cases they cause widespread suffering and death. Is the coronavirus continues to affect the country we are taking a look at author programs about pandemics we have had in our archives. Up next john barry discusses his book the great influenza which discusses the 1918 influenza outbreak. Heres a portion of his book from 2004. Now you have the enemy, the enemy of course is a virus. All influenza viruses are bird viruses. E
Oligarchy run government while a lot of very much have been rumors that chance the dutch of lancaster one of johnsons deputies michael gove is supported by Rupert Murdoch i dont remember donald trump in interview when i was 1st with the British Press here michael did the interview Rupert Murdoch was in the room the entire time and michael gove actually went on the sunday political shows here in the u. K. To defend Boris Johnson and he offered this kind of less than spirited response to some question it was a really really simple question is it correct that by late february the u. K. Sent 266000 pieces of protective equipment to china. But i wont get into details to and fro on the sunday times story more details will be not so really simple. Yes why not to get into the u. K. To foreign help did issue a statement later that day and every some eyebrows because its actually sounded like downing street spin offering a play by play reporter at the sunday times this one particularly interesti
Bill good evening. My name is bill leggett. I am a bookseller. On behalf of the entire staff welcome. , its a pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to be hosting sonia shah. And hearing her discuss her book, epidemic, trekking from cholera and beyond. If you have any noisemaking devices, take a moment to silence them now. Sonja will read for about half an hour and then take as many of your questions we can fit into 20 minutes. And then she will sign books afterwards. We encourage questions, but need you to use actually the one microphone thats here on the right by the pillar, so that everyone can be involved in the conversation and also for our cspan audience. After the event is over, if you great help if you fold up the chair and place it against a bookshelf, and it will be time for the book sailing book signing, and the books are for sale when you walked in. Sonia shaw is an investigative author whose work has appeared in the New York Times and scientific american, among others. H