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Dr Eric Topol explores the next 20 years of progress in artificial intelligence with expert Kai-Fu Lee.

Judy C. Washington, MD, a mentor of many young academic family physicians, particularly underrepresented-in-medicine physicians, advises her mentees on how to see ahead and plot paths to leadership.

And now you got secretary of state tony blinken saying hes going to change things. over the last year, since you wrote this, have you seen any changes inside the state department when it comes to recruitment, especially amongst diverse candidates? >> well, absolutely. the secretary appointed gina abercrombie as chief diversity officer. there has been work expanding the fellowship to have more african-americans in the state department, so there definitely has been a movement to that -- to have mo...

Care physician dr. saju mathu. lets talk about that for a second. does that mean that the ag age-based rollout, which i think was trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible, as quickly as possible, was that a mistake? >> yeah. hi, alisyn. no, i dont think it was a mistake. were learning more and more about this virus as we continue to kind of get into the midst of this pandemic. age is such a huge basis for us in medicine when we look at the patients risk factor for heart disease, cance...

Contagious virulent delta variant. guess what the vaccine won. we did not see a massive spike of deaths this summer in new york city. thats what vaccine victory looks like we didnt see anything close to the winter surge let alone the deadly early days of the pandemic. you could see it on the charts deaths have essentially plateaued since july im starting with this tonight just to keep everyones eyes on the north star where we can return almost to normal and we can see our loved ones go to see pl...

Plateaued since july. im starting with this tonight just to keep everyones eyes on the north star. where we can return almost to normal and we can see our loved ones, were going to see plays and sporting events and be around each other in fellowship. but of course the problem is the vaccine vaccination rates are even unevenly distributed. another statistic this country this weekend is blowing my mind, how far weve fallen in the international competition to vaccinate all of our population, at lea...

Member for blue star families. by-law star families recognized that families of color were experiencing greater hardships than other military families. thats really where general bingham stepped up. blue star families tapped general gwen bingham to be the co-chair of this racial equity and inclusion initiative. >> what were looking to do is to assess the needs of our military families of color and to get a sense for what their highs and their lows are. >> they were reporting more financial distr...

Member for blue star families. blue star families recognized that families of color were experiencing greater hardships than other military families. thats really where general bingham stepped up. blue star families tapped general gwenn bingham to be the co-chair of this racial equity and inclusion initiative. >> what were looking to do is to assess the needs of our military families of color and to get a sense for what their highs and their lows are. >> they were reporting more financial distre...

In government were working incredibly hard doing just that, but i found i was at home. you know, the biggest decision i was making was, whos cooking dinner and whats it going to be? but it was, you know... i accepted the situation and i tried to use that time constructively, as well as being able to do more in my constituency in bromsgrove, but also thinking about, you know, its a real, actual learning opportunity, and thats why i took up this senior fellowship with the harvard kennedy school. a...

Without knowing, of course, that it was going to begin. did you find yourself thinking, "oh, god, i wish i was there, "i want to take this decisions?" yeah, there was some frustration. especially at the start of the pandemic, because we could all see unfolding on our tv screens and things just how desperate a situation it was for the country, around the world. i had all this experience and i really wanted to help, but i couldnt, and, you know, there was all these big decisions to be made, and, o...