A negative ebola test result means a patient doesnt have ebola but just this week a physician died after being flown to nebraska for emergency treatment after initial tests showed a negative test. His colleagues are in quarantine causing greater anxiety in a medical profession lost more than 500 to ebola. Hospitals and Healthcare Workers were to have proper guidance on personal protective kwichlt. Cdc guideline do not require a threeweek selfisolation period for healthcare officials. They can return to work immediately. But the hospitals i talked to did not agree. I asked an er doctor from my district about whether any of his colleagues volunteering in west africa could come back to work immediately. He had a simple response. I quote him. He said, they should stay away. The administration continues to pose travel restrictions and quarantines yet respected institutions have policies to ensure Public Health is protected. Its impossible for the American People to understand why the govern
On the lower at the end timescale, europe attacks out of office osha welfare programs. I think very few individuals accurately and that tax incentives that they are facing. I think this savers credit, the motivation behind not to give lowincome families and incentives to save his wellintentioned, but if you cant sit down as someone with a phd in economics cant sit down and figure it out in 10 minutes, it is too complicated. I think the fact we have so many different tax favored ways to save makes it complicated. So you know, am i better off in saving, not just the retirement system. If i am an employee and my employer offers a purchase plan, a 401 k plan and a Health Savings account and have a limited budget for how much i can say is, its complicated to figure out where should i put that money, plus we have 529 plans. Weve got lots of tax favor ways to save. I think some simplification and some consistency across these different plans would be helpful. The wire for a three b. Plan has
Those are some of the things that the Contingency Fund is about. It is a fund we have submitted for because we want to make sure there is a block that the funding will not be used only as needed, but we want to plan for things we cant exactly predict right now. Youve asked for some money for fda for vaccines. Would you speed it up, bring more people into the process, are there steps in an emergency situation like this that there is a way to go through them more quickly or go around them to get to the end product quicker . Yes, sir. We have seen that in process right now. The Congress Gave us emergency use authorization that would allow us to approve diagnostics quickly. Weve used that authorization six times. Fda has used it six times. We approved from start to finish in 36 hours. One of those diagnostics. With regard to other emergency authorities that fda has, we have approved drugs. What happens is when a drug is not approved, if a clinician asks fda for approval for that individual
And not zero risk maybe you would have liked that. If you are, were going out the door. Right. Doctor, to dr. Freeden, head of the centers for Disease Control, what can you say to the American People today about their and its widespread of a possibly Ebola Outbreak in this country . We certainly understand peoples concerns. Ebola is scary, deadly. And the images from africa are frightening. But ebola spreads by direct contact with we know unsafe care giving in the home or Health Care Facility and unsafe burial practices. The burial practices that are spreading ebola in west africa are not things that we do here, not to be concerned about. But care giving is. That means for every individual who comes back from a place that may have ebola, very important to be monitored actively for 21 days. At the first sign of any symptom, even if its not severe illness, what were seeing now is, as appropriate. People are coming in, being tested. Coming in and being isolated. As soon as that happens, w
They are almost complete and they are very optimistic that they start next phase of the trial with both of those vaccines in west africa. This slide indicated that there was a third company, but they were not expected to engage in phase one trials until the fall of 2015 which is a substantial ways away from where we are today. There other potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline. We are supporting some of those. They are behind this timeline and we are right now focused on trying to figure out if these vaccines are and effective and if they are, get them into use to control the epidemic in west africa. Part of the emergency funding request will be 157 million for barta to continue to accelerate the development and manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics for the outbreak. My understanding from talking to the folks at new link genetics is these Clinical Trials that have been ongoing at walter reed and the national sn institute of allergy and Infectious Disease, there is good rappo