Im going to start. Hello, everyone. I hope you will find your seats. You are in for a real treat now. Im going to introduce our keynote speaker. Okay. Im just going to start talking. I hope you listen. Susan abulaza is a palestinian a author who has written best sellers. When we announced that she would give this keynote address, Phillip Farha said his wifes Reading Group agreed its the best they ever read. [ applause ] he said, i really put her up there with charles dickens. Her debut novel was translated into 28 languages. Her second novel the blue between sky and water has been translated into 26 languages. Her first poetry collection, my voice shot the wind was published by just world books. Those books are for sale. Her third novel will be published soon in 2019. Shes the daughter of refugees from the 1967 sixday war when her familys land was seized and israel captured what remains of palestinian, including jerusalem. She was born in kuwait. She completed high school, university a
Your questions about the situation in just a few minutes. But we begin tonight with correspondent Jonathan Serrie in atlanta, home to the cdc, good evening, jonathan. Good evening, bret. The First Authorized antiviral treatment for covid19 that comes in pill form. Physicians say it will reduce the cost of treatment. Also make it easier because you can take it at home instead of going into a medical setting for an injection or an iv. The fda has granted emergency reduce authorization for paxlivid with patients are early to moderate symptoms likely to worsen. Studies show the drug reduces hospitalization and death in high risk patients by 89 . The federal government has agreed to purchase enough of pfizers drug to treat 10 million people. But a complicated six to eighth month manufacturing process means initial supplies will be limited during the current surge. We will have 265,000 Treatment Courses of pfizer available in january. With monthly totals of pills ramping up across the year.
Tefillin are small leather cases containing miniscule parchment scrolls inscribed with biblical verses. They are worn even today by observant Jews as part of their morning prayers.