Welcome. Im the director of the athenaeum and im delighted to welcome you to this, the third and final program in our wonderful collaboration with the poets theater. If you missed the earlier presentations, you will find. Ideos of those on our website at this point, it would be a perfect time to silence any noisemaking devices you might have with you. Just a note, there are illuminated signs that will lead you to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency. David is the playwright of this evenings performance. Professor emeritus of english at Simmons College and literary director of the poets theater, hes appeared in productions with the actors shakespeare project, the Harvard Center for the arts, the Repertory Theater committee drama club my National Public radio and many others. He holds a phd from the university of north carolina. Consumer of astute the rare materials in our library from all of which are available for anybody to see upon request. Think about inspiration you might t
The coming months. We have already begun discussions with all of the developers about how they could do that. We talked about the simple design that could be implemented and start merrily informative. So, once if the capacity is filled in the coming months i think we will be ready to go. The companies are planning to do that. Next week i will be in geneva to meet with representatives from the country because critically thereby it is essential and working with them to modify the plan and to have a shared plan. So, ultimately, be products in west africa will depend on multiple parties working together. Not only the companies that actually make these products, the health authorities, the regulatory authorities and the u. S. Government ability to establish this kind of infrastructure. This is all extremely challenging that failure is not an option and we do have to find ways to overcome the challenges. Failure is just not an option. And i thank you again and the fbi has more than 200 scien
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So there is a lot of need to exchange information. And the announcement that my colleague is going to talk about not only for the ability to improve patient care but also to begin to study the effect of the countries. So, we do hope it would be possible to conduct the trial in the coming months. We have already begun discussions with all of the developers about how hey could do that. They are at the earliest stages of development. There is no impetus to manufacture it in that large scale. This constrains options for doing large scale products right now and to widebly distribute a product that is investigational. And also to be able to establish the needs of safety. To do that, we need to do a clinical trial. It seem like a daunting, daunting endeavor. The announcement by the president is really very critical. Not only to taking care of, for the ability to improve patient care but also to be able to begin to study these products in the affected countries. We do hope that it will be poss