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then of course here's young peter, he goes by brooks adams. the on youngest child,clearly has what we now define as add . he can still, when his son five is funny, he literally shrinks, screams, jumps around and charles said in his diary is never going to go to harvard read this is not going to gowell but he does and he becomes a historian and a pioneering one but also an odd one . so in 1864, charles francis junior at the option of joining the first ever state black cavalry unit and there's of course a debate over which is the first black unit in 54, the first carolina. he wants to be clear that don't have the first ever black cavalry unit and the offer adams job on busy being in command. and he agrees but not because he likes the men in his regiment, he does it because even adams and this is the anti-slavery efforts andno one should do it . this is what i found really problematic. his father charles francis senior almost acknowledged race or an awareness of race in his diary. 80 in 1840, share space with the negro douglas or today i talked s

staff at abbey brooks in cambridge must be shielded from the highly infectious virus. patients like peteren. the one thing known to help. i was fighting for breath, it's very bad. that was on day three, i could not breathe. the toll in individuals and their families has not breathe. the toll in individuals and theirfamilies has been enormous. at my age, everybody said it would. you are doing so well. peter is part of the national trial which is examining five drugs for conditions to see if they work for coronavirus. until they get results, doctors have limited options. it's difficult to watch a large number of patients gets incredibly unwell and we have no therapies anywhere in the world that are proving to be efficacious. it means that an urgent health need to do research into space so we health need to do research into space so we can health need to do research into space so we can understand what treatments work and what don't. drugs for hiv and malaria are being tried to see if they can help stop the virus application in the body. 0ther the virus application in the body. other patient

brooke? >> which can be the potentially frightening part of all of this. a doctor waiting in the wings. we'll talk to him about that, kung, thank you. dr. peter hotez is a professor and dean of medical, nice to see you again. welcome back. >> good to see you, welcome back. >> thank you. as we close in on a million cases of coronavirus in the u.s., dr. birx said social distancing will need to continue for months but as kung mentioned, in georgia, we see restaurants and movie theatres opening, some beaches in california are open, other states are outlining plans to reopen or revising stay at home policies. what's your biggest fear? >> one of the big fears, of course, is that we're doing this too soon and covid-19 will come back. if you look at the models coming out of the institutes for health metrics at the university of washington, one thing they do and anybody can do this, go to healthdata.org and click on your state with specific recommendations on when you can go back into containment mode, meaning fewer than one new case per million residents per day, which is about about what they believe you can handle in terms of the public health depa