Its an author discussion on the potential longterm effects covid19 will have on society. Hello, im brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. We are here today with authors paola giordano, Mark Honigsbaum and sonia shah. Im gonna read very brief bios. Mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. And the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. His current elector at City University london. Paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally bestselling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. His essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and help shift Public Opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. Sonia shah is prizewinning author of pandemic trackin
60s as we start off our day. As we head through the afternoon we are looking at daytime high around where we should be for this time of year but cooler compared to the warm day we had yesterday. Low to mid60ss for the daytime highs. We will time it out on future cast. When the rain will arraign. For now lets check in on traffic. Probably now is the best time to head out. Before it gets busier. The morning commute we are starting to see busy conditions. Especially for the ride into the pass. We are starting to see cars going toward north flynn. If you have to get out the door try to do it earlier rather than later. The travel times in the yellow. 205 toward 680. No delays but a couple things in to the Traffic Center for highway 4, westbound 4 in the brentwood area. Im getting word of a serious crash where they will shut down both directions here shortly to clear everything over to the shoulder. Traffic starting to build in that area and a new crash in on westbound 4. I will have details
Military operations theres been a lot of this kind of transfers from exams abroad to here. Now the United States has a new conflict zone on its own doorstep its a crisis that the us and other industrial nations have helped to create. There 700. 00 times more Carbon Emissions from the United States since 900. 00 than. El salvador and honduras combined 700 times more yet this is like this this is a country thats thats thats fortifying is the borders from people who are obviously impacted by those sorts of excessive amounts of emissions and and i think how could that be possible i mean weve known about the science for so many years and we had more than ever before but the same time theres more border walls than ever before to you like its like this emphasis like this is kind of Adaptation Plan right for the richer countries. When bellevue the ramos arrived in arizona 80 years ago there was no Reception Center for migrants. He still waiting for a permanent residence permit. To go see him t
Remote hearings certainly arent the same as sitting together in our Committee Room but this new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American Peoples while keeping our staff, family and broader communities safe. This is the second official virtual subcommittee hearing in the ways and means committee. As with our previous hearing i want members to know i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantive debates. Even as we conduct our business from afar i will continue to work with our Ranking Member and his staff so to ensure that the rights of all members are respected in this new virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic i want to remind members of a few procedures to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on meeting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for the
Funeral to remember them by. Protective gear waved goodbye from across the hospital room. 150,000 americans have died. More than any other nation on gods green earth. More than our allies and more than our adversaries, more than the most populous nations inan this direction of our wealth and power and more, so many more in the nation where the virus originated. We will debate the reasons for this truth. We must if we are to avoid compounding the errors keeping so no one thought of as the virus continues to rage throughout the country. But now we spend a moment to acknowledge how much the country has suffered already. Weve lost friends and neighbors, brothers and sisters, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, the beloved professor at howard university, civil rights pioneer, renowned psychiatrist, brooklyn doctor 62 on the verge of retiring in the early weeks of the crisis in new york work day shifts and night shifts at the hospitals across the street before finally succumbing to the