Where people do not think that our lives are worthy of documentation. Not worthy of celebrating. To watch the rest of this program visit our website booktv. Org. Search for the title of her book the three mothers using the Search Box at the top of the page. Good evening, everyone. Welcome. I am Brad Graham along with my wife. We have a great event for you this evening with Michael Lewis talking about his new book premonition. We would like to thank our friends in miami and Harvard Book store in Cambridge Massachusetts partnering with us to make this event happen. A couple of brief housekeeping notes first, a question at any point during the talk just click on the q and a icon at the bottom of the screen. The Chat Function will be available for audience comments this evening. In that column you will find a link for purchasing additional copies of the premonition. In the introduction of his new book defines his job as mainly finding the story and the material. He has done that consistent
Where people do not think that our lives are worthy of documentation. Not worthy of celebrating. To watch the rest of this program visit our website booktv. Org. Search for the title of her book the three mothers using the Search Box at the top of the page. Good evening, everyone. Welcome. I am Brad Graham along with my wife. We have a great event for you this evening with Michael Lewis talking about his new book premonition. We would like to thank our friends in miami and Harvard Book store in Cambridge Massachusetts partnering with us to make this event happen. A couple of brief housekeeping notes first, a question at any point during the talk just click on the q and a icon at the bottom of the screen. The Chat Function will be available for audience comments this evening. In that column you will find a link for purchasing additional copies of the premonition. In the introduction of his new book defines his job as mainly finding the story and the material. He has done that consistent
record retired narratives like this. if you are vaccinated and boosted coming you are highly protected. you know, be concerned about omicron, but don t be alarmed. and if you are unvaccinated coming you have some reason to be alarmed. there is no excuse, no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. if you are vaccinated and boosted, you may get covid, but you are highly protected against severe illness. greg: no excuse. of the president not spending much time on his testing failure, people forced to wait in line and can t get at home tests. but joe biden claims he is making progress. i know this remains frustrating, believe me, it is frustrating to me. but we are making improvements. with more capacity of her in person tests we should see weight line shortened and more appointments freed up, google covid tests near me to find the nearest site where you can get a test most often and free. greg: that s our president. a
average over a two-week period climbed by more than 200%. those figures only illustrate part of the story. testing sites are overwhelmed as omicron spreads at breakneck speeds. many americans are turning to at-home tests, if they re lucky enough to get their hands on one. think about all the positive tests that aren t being properly counted. some experts believes if all all the active cases were accurately counted, we would have somewhere near 1 million new cases a day in this country. and the serious cases are again overwhelming hospitals across america. in many parts of the country, long lines at testing sites have become commonplace, whether waiting on foot or in a vehicle. massive lines stretch for blocks. i like countless americans went out this past week to search for a local testing site that could do a test. the woman at the counter of one of them said they were full and taking no more walk-ins or appointments. it was only 2:00 p.m. when i said, okay, i ll come back t
year s eve celebrations. the annual times square celebration in new york city is for now a go. the fda has authorized two new at-home tests, but for now the demand for testing is drastically outpacing supply. many hospitals are maxed out with large portions of staff out sick themselves. states like georgia and ohio are the latest to activate the national guard for help. some experts say this is the new reality for the foreseeable future. everything we re going to do right now will be imperfect. just accept that right now. we don t know a lot of the things we wish we knew, but what we do know and is emerging is this country will be in the soup in the next few weeks. with so many cases in so many locations, we ll see critical infrastructure as well as health care challenged. one of those big challenges is a rise in pediatric cases. more than 300 children being admitted to the hospital nation wild for covid every day in the last two weeks, just 2% below the peak in september