Diseases. Sarah i am pleased to convene the meeting. Welcome to todays council on relations meeting. Im the executive Vice President of worldwide Government Legal Affairs at mcandrews and forbes incorporated. I will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of for 30 a conversation minutes and i will open it to questions and answers. Promptly at 1 30 as you might imagine. Very busy emen are right now dealing with coronavirus. So lets just start looking back decade, ghly the past emerging Infectious Diseases ave played a recurring and minous theme, the h1n1, ebola, zika and the 2019 novel oronavirus, the threat is not dissipating. When it comes to nondisease natural disasters, the act Disaster Relief funds to enable Immediate Response by small son, there is Infectious Disease Rapid Response reserve fund. Stafford act ore like mechanism to enable a research sponse to these new threats . First aybe ill take the whack at this. Because i think that the feeling in congre
Director kadlec. I am pleased to convene the meeting. Thank you to todays council on Foreign Relations meeting. Regostownsend of legal and business affairs. And i will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading a conversation for 30 minutes. And then i will open it to questions and answers. We will end promptly at 1 30 as you might imagine. These gentlemen are very busy right now dealing with coronavirus. So lets just start. Looking back over roughly the past decade, emerging Infectious Diseases have played an ominous heme being h1n1, ebola, zika and now the novel coronavirus. The threat is not disapating. The stafford act provides Disaster Relief funds to enable immediate response. O we need a more staffordactlike mechanism to research these new threats . So maybe ill take the first whack at this. Because i think the feeling in congress in discussions with both house and Senate Members is that clearly theres a value for having some kind of Disaster Relie