Thank you all again for coming back today and for tuning in, and i do know that these daily briefings can get tedious, and the information, much of it, sounds the same, so people may start to tune it out, but i can tell you the situation is changing, it is evolving, and the information we are putting out is important. Just because the social distancing and hygiene guidance and the stay at home order stays in place after day doesnt mean we shouldnt talk about those things because that will be the key to success in trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and certainly the lowest death toll. I want to think the doctor for being with us today. He has been a practicing physician in new orleans for decades although he does not look that old. Officere chief medical officer. Working with the state office of Public Health and it is great to have you here today. He will take some questions. He will have some prepared comments and take questions after i
Trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and the lowest death total. Corey he thank dr. Bert. He has been a practicing physician for decades, although he does not look that old. He is the chief chief medical officer for dillard university. He is also working with the state of Public Health. And it is great to have him here today. He will take questions and have some prepared comments after i am finished. The doctory have from the apart department of health to take questions related to testing and Public Session other things. Dr. Hebert is here because we mentioned some disturbing statistics coming out of our analysis of the information we are getting, and that is while about 33 of the states population is africanamerican, over 70 of the deaths because of covid19 or among africanamericans. That is concerning to me and to others, and it is unacceptable. We want to better understand why that is and what we can contributed to do, and how we get rid
orleans and his grandpa s over there and his mama s and his daddy s there. so he s going to act right? today and job is to jarvis you from mississippi? holly springs, mississippi college brings, mississippi, although he s been to here so many times and he s been here so long. he actually is in new. orleanian. yes, whether he claims it or not. we claim him. so give him a round of applause. i have to say a couple of preliminary things before we start i m here in my individual capacity. i m speaking only for myself. and i m cheryl s husband. so that s just kind of it. so, it s nice, it s nice. that s true. it s nice to it s nice to be with all of you, and i really wanted to thank walter isaacson and cheryl and the entire team and staff all sponsors for putting this fantastic book festival, they ve been working on this now as you know, right before covid hit they were like you think we re going to be able to go. i m like, i don t think so. couple months. i don t think so. and her
from mississippi? holly springs, mississippi college brings, mississippi, although he s been to here so many times and he s been here so long. he actually is in new. orleanian. yes, whether he claims it or not. we claim him. so give him a round of applause. i have to say a couple of preliminary things before we start i m here in my individual capacity. i m speaking only for myself. and i m cheryl s husband. so that s just kind of it. so, it s nice, it s nice. that s true. it s nice to it s nice to be with all of you, and i really wanted to thank walter isaacson and cheryl and the entire team and staff all sponsors for putting this fantastic book festival, they ve been working on this now as you know, right before covid hit they were like you think we re going to be able to go. i m like, i don t think so. couple months. i don t think so. and here we are two and a half years later and i think you d agree with me at the spectacular response, right? so anyway three really brillia
so give him a round of applause. i have to say a couple of preliminary things before we start i m here in my individual capacity. i m speaking only for myself. and i m cheryl s husband. so that s just kind of it. so, it s nice, it s nice. that s true. it s nice to it s nice to be with all of you, and i really wanted to thank walter isaacson and cheryl and the entire team and staff all sponsors for putting this fantastic book festival, they ve been working on this now as you know, right before covid hit they were like you think we re going to be able to go. i m like, i don t think so. couple months. i don t think so. and here we are two and a half years later and i think you d agree with me at the spectacular response, right? so anyway three really brilliant minds on the stage yesterday. i had the opportunity to go to walter isaacson s class and i listen to walter and michael lewis talk to their students and the students were asking them. you know, how do you write a book? you