Susan christian mcmillen, uva historian and associate dean for social sciences, author of the book on pandemics. I wanted to ask you as we start out, are there any historical precedents for what the world is its appearance in right now with covid19 . Christian yeah, there are several. I think the most recent one that comes to mind, and probably comes to most everyone elses mind, is the 1918 influenza pandemic in terms of its rapidity, how fast it spread across the world, and its scope and span. In the 19th century the cholera epidemic would be the most, the clearest analogy. Susan we are going to have an opportunity to dig into some of those lessons of history a bit more, but when you look at the response, of course things are so much different for society now. You talk about how important it is to learn lessons from past pandemics and epidemics. What lessons have we clearly learned . Christian what lessons have we clearly learned . That is a good lesson. Im only smiling because as an
Security by working with the telecoms. Just trying to pose a bigger spying threat to the continent states itself people in new york. Probably us probably us anybody having. Access to. Thanks for joining us tonight as an Aussie International welcome to the program. The president of ukraine reacted with anger to the far from friendly welcome received on thursday by retiring evacuees from china riots broke out over fears the passengers might spread the potentially deadly coronavirus even tested positive for just to set up roadblocks class with police buses carrying the patients to hospital. Said his nation and falling back into the middle ages the clashes left. Officers and one civilian injured. Was i did. Was actually. You know we always say that ukraine is europe to be honest at some moments we look like Medieval Europe unfortunately lets not forget that we are all human beings all over flight from the chinese city of what hardware tens of thousands of people have been infected landed i
All seeing thousands to flee and shutting down the countrys biggest airports. Follow our top story this hour protesters in irans capital are continuing their demonstrations in anger of the government submission that the military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet hundreds have also gathered outside the u. K. s embassy in tehran after the British Ambassador was briefly detained for attending an antigovernment protest on saturday theyve been chanting death to england and calling for the embassy to be shut down but protests have also taken place across the country against the governments initial denial that down the passenger jet calling the claim psychological warfare the plane which was bound for the ukrainian capital kiev was shot down by a missile on wednesday killing all 176 passengers and crew tensions in the region are still high after the assassination of iranian general money in iraq by the United States and then cast her as emir is in teheran in a push to ease those tensions is
Can you guess what company just passed facebook to become the second most downloaded app in the world well goat you the answer a bit later in the show. Its a busy hour were kicking it off with target missing the mark a once red hot retailer posting the worst day since november 2018 after reporting sluggish electronics sales. Target which had been a bright spot for the sector and market in general joins kohl as jcpenney five below and l brands failing to meet holiday expectations. The xrt, the etf tracking the group, down more than 1 to kick off the year. Guy. Yes, zwlier do you think there are cracks in the consumer showing . I dont think its an indictment of the consumer at all. I think in this case one off misses we have have a consumer conversation but i dont think its about target the stock went from 80 to 130 in a Straight Line and finally valuation catching up to walmart compsy disappointing you cant say they were not. They reiterated Fourth Quarter guidance and margins down. Sto
Raging in is streaming wars media empires strike back. Comcast, at t, disney and apple bring their shields to full. And netflix and roku burn up in the atmosphere who will dominate the next evolution . Humanity will find out now yes, it was a week that change the world, a streaming roku falling a whopping 26 on increase in competition from comcast and Facebook Netflix slammed as ceo reed hayesings admits tough competition from disney and apple. Who wins the next battle in the streaming wars. What do you think, guy. That in a world isnt that great. That guy is fantastic. Good voice. Great voice. But every movie trailer starts with in a world. In a world where melissa lee asks questions on her show. I want answers. And well it would appear nice laugh track. Oh, laugh track. Really on top of it. It would appear as though disney in terms of the stock disney is the most poised to go higher only because and tim could speak to this, the valuation, seems to be growing into a valuation its neve