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More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan pre ....
The resume or via cspan who has asked to broadcast the keynote today. We are absolutely thrilled to reach so many colleagues wherever you might be. It took a whole team to get us here, team of colleagues with more than 17 campuses in broad expanse of our metropolitan region. They and others are volunteering their time and energy during those two days to ensure it goes smthly. We would normally ask them to stand and be recognized but that is not possible this year and if as you see them helping in various capacities please take a moment to thank them for their work. I would also like to take a moment to recognize the enormous effort taken by our assistant director jennifer and office of elearning director of instructional design henry for leading this years conference. These amazing women are so talented and creative im overcome with pride and i know them and get to work with them. Its incredible to see the creative [inaudible] we would like to personally thank the support of the univer ....
My name is haben girma, im a disability rights advocate, lawyer, speaker and author. My book is called haben the deafblind woman who conquered harvard law. I am deafblind. Ive limited vision and hearing and i grew up in a cited and hearing world. I was born and raised in california, and i am still living in california. I am talking to you from my living room. I dont actually work here. I work at my desk and thats where i sat down to write my book. My deafblind this is not the thing that made life difficult. It was able listen that made life difficult. Ableism is the belief that disabled people are inferior compared to nondisabled people. Its not true. We are not inferior, but evil navalism keeps moving throughout our society and saying disabled people dont matter, therefore, dont make services accessible, dont provide medical care and all kinds of unfair biases. When i was younger i wasnt sure what to do. Do i just accept inferior service . But over time i learn to advocate. I started ....
Which raises even more questions and concerns of the residents here in kabul about the security in the city which has been deteriorating throughout a very, very long time. How could this happen with all those checkpoints, with those glimpse on the sky of kabul, but they have been monitoring the security situation and what happened this morning, really, it really felt like the capital was under attack. I spoke with people who even thought that there was a military coup. Others felt that the taliban were trying to take over the city because for 10 minutes nobody knew what was happening. It was just and i could watch from my window. It was just contact constant explosions and things landing across the city. There were fathers who grab their babies and they try to hide behind refrigerators. Praying that today will not be the day that their baby will die. And all these rockets have landed in the heart of kabul, our very crowded areas, residential areas, and the kabul is not a stranger to ca ....