Of todays lecture, to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in , if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture sponsored or cosponsored by the center of president ial history, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. Thanks again for coming. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the Clement Center for southwest studies. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Starting with our friends for whom we are cosponsoring tonights event. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially bono spitz, who along for those people who ha
Tries pushes through a 2 trillion dollar Coronavirus Relief package. And as hospitals in the worst hit countries struggle to cope we look at what the virus means for Health Systems in poorer nations. Well after more than 2 weeks unlocked and italy house reporters states biggest jump in corona virus deaths since the outbreak began 919 people have died within the past day taking its death toll to more than 9000 spain has reported another 769 deaths its highest number in a single day and britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the u. K. Health minister have both tested positive for the coronavirus this as another 181 people died in the United Kingdom the World Health Organization has warned there is a chronic global shortage of protective gear for Health Care Workers a problem it calls an urgent threats numbers are ticking up around the world but south africa russia. And indonesia all reporting more than a 1000 confirmed cases where francesco jumper tolly is a journalist based in the la
Thanks so much for coming. It seems particularly appropriate given the subject of todays lecture to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially for those people who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in ho
Bars killing more than 20 inmates. And more doubts about the tokyo a lympics talks began about whether the games should be postponed. For the 1st time in days italys daily coronavirus death toll has fallen but still 651. 00 lives were lost on sunday bringing italys total almost 5500. 00 the government is shut almost all factories and banned internal travel talk about germany now. Says shes going into quarantine after coming into contact with an infected doctor shes also banned gatherings of more than 2 people so this is a global snapshot right now from u. S. Base Johns Hopkins university about 330000 and factions have been reported since the outbreak began now almost 98000 have recovered more than 14400 have died china italy in the u. S. Have the most confirmed cases to start with were a challenge wrapping up the situation across europe. It is a mark of the severity of italys situation when its latest coronavirus daily death toll can be viewed as good news 651. 00 new fatalities more t
Think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you this evening. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially for those people who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in honor of the governor who had died earlier that year. The donor wanted to hear our ideas first about how we put those funds to use before they were transmitted. Naturally, i proposed that this money be applied to my mortgage. [laughter] he passed. The benefactor liked much more the idea that we use the money to convert one of the junior postdoctoral fellowship lines to one that would support an invited senior scholar. That would cost more and they are