Been exposed to live anthrax apples are you confident as to whether or not we would have had proper vaccines and therapeutics in place to save lives . Am confident that we do. Are you confident, doctor hassell . Okay. Are you confident that we have enough proper vaccines and therapeutics in place to save lives . I do not have sufficient information to answer that question. Nor do i. Would that be for the workers that are being exposed or how about with respect to the Committee Building on the congressmans questions about one of these individuals if you have been exposed to presented to any our . Can you explain to me what your view is if you have one . Thank you for that question. The Strategic National stockpile did provide vaccine for the states that have workers while receiving prophylaxis. I am confident we have the ability to do it the vast supply of countermeasures for anthrax,anthrax, the nature of the events you might be trying to prepare for always determines whether you have
That means the facility, as an appropriate facility has Good Laboratory practice and appropriate rules. It includes the fbi review of personnel reliability on all of those who we will be using it includes a set of requirements elevate biosafety and security inventory management, Access Control and it includes a process and ability to detect and respond including the notification of jurisdictions that have these facilities including but we did with the anthrax response being able to go in investigate, identify whether people are at risk and whether they are and this involves private sector as well as Public Sector institutions; is that correct . Thats correct. Where you find the best practices going from . Doctor hassell was talking about going to the private sector. Where are we finding the best practices today . Private or Public Sector . It is a combination of both. We will look at the private sector. That often does not happen as a 1st reaction. The department of defense my centers
And your attendance here today and we look forward to hearing from you. The subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness response medications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on the state of First Responders medications. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on an issue that is vital to our Homeland Security. The ability of our First Responders to communicate. As noted in the 2006 National Baseline survey, there is a direct correlation between effective medications, interoperability and First Responders ability to save lives. In my hometown of new york city, we know ther this all too well. Both the first, both the office of emergency medications and First Responder network of authority were established in the wake of the medications failures of 911 and later in hurricane katrina. We have made a great deal of progress since those fateful disasters. States and localities have invested billion
No chit chat. I stay focused. Since this is when the fundamentals really come to the fore and direct the overall direction of the market like today where the dow gained 29 points. Nasdaq advanced 0. 02 . Unfortunately its not all earnings weve got to deal with next week. Whats your game plan . Let me show you mine. Ive been saying that the fed is prepping us right now for a december rate hike, a big reason why this market cant get out of its own way and feels so sloppy. More on that later. Now, fed vice chairman Stanley Fisher will speak monday, and hes been a major rate hike proponent. I bet his new speech will cause this market to get hit. Hes hurt stocks virtually ever time hes opened his mouth in 2016. But fishers words will help some stocks, notably the banks, and bank of america reports on morning. The stock has been advancing of late, was up nicely today. Even though its still dirt cheap, i have to wonder if bank of america has gotten ahead of itself thanks to the excellent earn
Nasdaq advanced 0. 02 . Unfortunately its not all earnings weve got to deal with next week. So whats your game plan . Let me show you mine. Ive been saying that the fed is prepping us right now for a december rate hike, a big reason why this market cant get out of its own way and feels so sloppy. More on that later. Now, fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer will speak monday, and hes been a major rate hike proponent. I bet his new speech will cause this market to get hit. Hes hurt stocks virtually every time hes opened his mouth in 2016. But fischers words will inevitably help some stocks, notably the banks, which benefit from higher rates, and bank of america reports monday morning. The stock has been advancing of late, was up nicely today. Even though its still dirt cheap, i have to wonder if bank of america has gotten ahead of itself thanks to the excellent earnings today from jpmorgan and citigroup. Some terrific pin action in all the banks today. If bank of america gets hit, it might