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APB speaker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, a six-time NBA champion and the league’s only six-time MVP. However, Abdul-Jabbar is not just a basketball legend, he is also a humanitarian, helping others during the COVID-19 pandemic.  

New to the New York Times Bestsellers List is Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by epidemiologist, COVID-19 expert and APB speaker Dr. Michael Osterholm. Hailed by CNN as “the infectious disease expert who has been warning us for a decade and a half that the world will face a pandemic,” Dr. Osterholm is the go-to voice on the public health impact of COVID-19. He predicted a pandemic like COVID-19 in Deadliest Enemy, a detailed account of the most pressing infectious diseases of our day. In the bestseller, Dr. Osterholm lays out a nine-point plan to combat “an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies” to prevent “the unthinkable from the inevitable.”

COVID-19 is affecting the racecar world, but IndyCar has a plan. To entertain their fans, they launched a virtual racing series, and six-time Indy Car winner, APB speaker James Hinchcliffe, is on board. CBC says that these drivers wanted to bring a behind the scenes look to their fans with this virtual event.

Internationally known as “Africa’s Iron Lady,” Nobel Peace Laureate and APB speaker Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a leading promoter of freedom, peace and justice. She believes that the world can make a big difference with the fight of COVID-19 by learning about the Ebola pandemic.  

 Managing Tomorrow’s Employees Today: Embracing Technology and the New Workforce | By John Brandt  There’s no precedent for the disruption in daily life and organizations driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of workers and tens of thousands of executives and managers find themselves isolated, worried, and alone as they try to protect their health and that of loved ones and colleagues — not to mention society at large. At the same time, they’re trying to be productive for their organizations while working alone at home or in restricted conditions at work.  

COVID-19 has put a halt to the world and is affecting the economy as well as the healthcare system. Political economist Mark Blyth uses his experience to break down and clarify complex issues, such as the coronavirus, which, in his words, is making the U.S. vulnerable. With a keen eye on Asian, European and North American economies and markets, master forecaster Mark Blyth examines the key variables, risks, opportunities and overall political and economic impact of COVID-19.  

Are you getting tired of being at home 24/7? APB speaker and CBS Sunday Morning contributor David Pogue answers the question: How do I live and work from home without going stir crazy? 

CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and New York Times bestselling author David Pogue recently discussed COVID-19 and how to stay safe. In the CBS Sunday Morning segment, Pogue has a conversation with his neighbor, Julie Beitman, of 15 years about the disease. He notices she is continuously washing her hands and despite not having this disease, it has affected her emotionally. After consulting David DeSteno, a psychology professor at Northeastern University, about why coronavirus is altering people’s behavior, Pogue discovered that fear plays a large role in irrational thinking. DeSteno suggests hope and calm can beat the nervousness felt during this time.

Acclaimed technology futurist and author, APB speaker Rebecca Costa, is among the few scientists who are not against panic. Costa expresses, “When it comes to exponentiating threats, the time to panic is now, not later.” Costa explains in her blog how the human brain is used to solving problems in a linear method, but when the problem is exponential, like COVID-19, it can truly become dangerous. Therefore, Costa uniquely enforces that panic is necessary to help put a stop to the virus spreading. Costa says, “They're treating the spread of the virus as if the number of cases will grow in a controlled, manageable, linear fashion. And in so doing, creating the illusion there is ample time to prepare hospitals, healthcare workers, nursing homes, schools, law enforcement, etc.” 

Practicing HIV/infectious diseases specialist and medical analyst on CNN, APB speaker Dr. Celine Gounder is getting a lot of questions from both American citizens and healthcare professionals on how to deal with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Dr. Gounder, epidemiologist (aka disease detective), wrote on Clinical Care Options that one of the biggest challenges during this epidemic is how to test for COVID-19.