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Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions ....
Than 1918, when contagion ravaged the world, shuttering schools, closing businesses and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became known 102 years ago as the spanish flu is Katharine Arnold who poured over eye witnesses accounts of the illness from it early beginningses at places like military nice kansas to it effect on a number of prominent american writers like john stein barbing and katherine porter. She read has she is the author of self book but the history of london and her book, the world of shake pierces london was pushed in i simon and shoe center 2015. She union us from the uk, woman, california catharine; n tell to go your ofolk tuesdayed on first person accounts, doctors, flurries, children. Why did you take such a personal view of the pandemic . I wanted to write a book that people could relate to. Spanish flu where people could read it and find characters like themselves. At times almost ....
Interesting or not is that it is a reflection of the number of tests weve had. 36 testing positive is slightly higher but that is the number that goes up and down. We will talk about why that may not be the best indicator of what is going on. I think of real interest to me is i look at hospitalization, you see 79 people hospitalized. That is the number that is not that is going up not exponentially but going up on a linear basis, which i think is good news. 17 fatalities is never good news. But again, it is a number that is not going up exponentially. What that means is it gives us capacity to plan and this is following what our modeling has been. And i start with our Health Care System. Our Health Care System is bending but it is not breaking. And that is because we did build in capacity in terms of everything we are trying to do, and that capacity as i have describe ....
A new week of testimony looms for donald trump. Why a trump insider says the process is the punishment for the former president. Plus, the author of this new piece explains how a Tabloid Publisher became a trump trial witness. A very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters. Welcome to alex witt reports. Another round of tornado devastation across parts of the midwest and the plains states overnight. Oklahoma hit hardest with 35 tornadoes reported across that state in the small town of sulphur near oklahoma city. Officials say the entire downtown was destroyed. Several were hurt. This comes one day after more than 100 tornadoes ripped through six states. 14 Million People are facing the risk of Severe Weather today with strong wind, large hail, possibly more tornadoes. We have a report coming up for you sh ....