Joining us from ann arbor, michigan is dr. Howard markel, the director for the history of medicine at the university of michigan. Thank you for being with us. Dr. Markel hi, i am fondly here. Host thank you for joining us. Tell us about your center. Dr. Markel i direct the center for the history of medicine at the university of michigan. We have a collection of physicians, phds in the history of medicine, and other scholars who try to understand how the profession of Medicine And Health Care And Disease has unfolded over the last many thousands of years. One of the great joys of doing that is to use those lessons to apply to the present. Weve been doing that through the university of michigan, i think this is my 30th year at the university of michigan. Ive been here a while doing that. Host it includes archival material including some posters like this one. It reads parents of earth, are your children fully immunized . Where did this come from . Dr. Markel im not seeing that poster rig
That same role to play on the national stage. Find cspans the weekly where you get your podcasts. Todays white house covid19 briefing, Health Officials announced that everyone 16 years and older is now eligible for a vaccine. They also said that the health and Human Services department would be making 150 million available to communitybased Health Care Providers. Good morning, thank you for joining us. Im joined by dr. Walensky from the c. D. C. And dr. Fauci from n. I. H. Today. I want to tell you today that things are about to get a whole lot easier. When we arrived in january, Many Americans were understandably frustrated with the pace of the Vaccination Program and the sea of challenges. Not enough vaccines. Few places to get vaccinated. Shortage of vaccinators. And confusing rules on who qualified in every state, tribe, and territory. We got to work around the clock deploying a whole of government approach from the fema personnel who are getting shots in arms across communities in
Tell us about your center. Dr. Markel i direct the center for the history of medicine at the university of michigan. We have a collection of physicians, phds in the history of medicine, and other scholars who try to understand how the profession of medicine and health care and disease has unfolded over the last many thousands of years. One of the great joys of doing that is to use those lessons to apply to the present. Weve been doing that through the university of michigan, i think this is my 30th year at the university of michigan. Ive been here a while doing that. Host it includes archival material including some posters like this one. It reads parents of earth, are your children fully immunized . Where did this come from . Dr. Markel im not seeing that poster right now so i cant look at it. There is a whole series of posters that go back from the early 20th century well into thewpa into the wpa project, so without looking at the poster its hard to tell the exact era. This is been g
As the u. S. House is about to come in as part of our longt ime commitments to bring you live coverage of the u. S. Congress. Flags are at half staff in honor of last weeks indianapolis shooting victims. A number of Homeland Security and Financial Services bills today. Now to the u. S. House on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , april 19, 2021. I hereby appoint the honorable Debbie Dingell to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 4, 2021, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders
Washington journal continues. Host every monday at this hour we take a closer look at covid19, where we are in the pandemic, more than a year after the first every monday at this hour i we take a much closer look of covid19 one year after the first cases reported joining us from ann arbor michigan is doctor markel the Director Center of history of medicine at the university of michigan. Thank you for being with us. So tell us about your center. I direct the center for the history of medicine we have a collection and a physicians and other scholars who try to understand how the profession of medicine and healthcare has unfolded the last many thousands of years. It is to use those lessons weve been doing that here at the university of michigan i have been here a while doing that. That is a lot of archival material including posters like this one parents of earth are your children fully immunized . Where did this come from . I am not seeing that poster right now. I cannot look at it there