On this episode of the Talkies, the United Nations has officially declared Coronavirus a pandemic. Critics have called the U.S. government’s initial response to the crisis uneven at best, especially the lack of available testing kits. Stanford University Professor of Medicine and Law Michelle Mello spoke with guest host Max Pringle about the government response and how it could do better with the next public health crisis.
Then, San Jose State University Emeritus Professor of Politics Larry Gerston joins us to give his report card on California’s first early primary in several years.
And closing out the show, author and journalist Jack Fairweather discusses his new book “The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz.” It’s a fascinating examination of the remarkable life of Polish soldier and resistance fighter Witold Pilecki. For decades, the incredible story of his mission to volunteer to be sent to Auschwitz to tell the world about Nazi atrocities there was buried by post war communist officials in Poland. And, as the world prepares to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe, Fairweather’s book helps us rediscover a hero that deserves to be remembered.
