Services secretary alex azar. He sat down with Research America to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and response, preparing for the flu season and Research Priorities within the department. This is 15 minutes. In your view should be the hhs led Research Agenda as the nation seeks to understand more about what has happened during the pandemic and what kinds of efforts should be sustained afterwards . Provenar i think has to be a valuable part of the covid response. This is such an unprecedented disease and its impact on the Health System is so unique. We are really learning. You can see we are learning how to treat patients with covid so much better as the time has progressed over the last several months. One of the key things we are doing as a funding opportunity with investigations as you mention, telemedicine and also treatment pathways and protocols in the idea would be to Fund Investigations to get information out on a short four to six month timeframe so we can replicate that and
Chief scientist of the food and Drug Administration serving from 20092014. Oodman, good morning. As you talk about your work chief scientist and how it relates to the fdas role with finding a vaccine . The science of vaccines is very complex. They are complex the study. On thentry relies experts at the fda to ensure that any vaccine that goes into clinical studies and oversees the Development Process and ultimately the approval process. Have such ane amazing reduction in childhood illness. Approved, itey are is monitoring their safety. To particular scientists work directly with the companies or is it a team effort . How does that work . There is an office called the office of Vaccine Research and there are experts on a whole range of issues from their chemistry, their manufacturing, their trials. There are different scientific disciplines that interacted the process, but at the end, it is completely independent. Host when it comes to you personally, just to care five to out just to cl
Set up theto conversation is zach cohen with National Journal and it covers the senate for that publication. Thank you for joining us. Dollartart about the differences between what the senate is proposing and what the house would like to see. That mitch bill mcconnell introduced is much smaller, not just smaller than the house bill, but even smaller than what republicans had put forward, which was closer to 1 trillion back in july. About five hundred billion dollars, maybe even less. And includes coats to cares act to offset costs. Idea was to coalesce the Senate Republican conference around one bill. It seems like he will get that. Host when it comes to the justification of the small figure, go a little bit deeper into the majority leaders thinking. Guest a lot of republicans have been concerned about the spending that has taken place, at least 3 trillion if you take together the cares act and some other funding packages. A lot of that money has not even been sent out yet. It still re
Progressed over the last several months, one of the key things is a funding opportunity with investigationsti as you mentiond telemedicine but also treatment pathways and protocols in the idea would be to Fund Investigation and get information out on a very short 4 6 month timeframe so we cann get that out there and replicate it and enhance learnings. We saw one of the key impacts of this with the south in the southwest, what we saw we went through this in early april in new york, new jersey, connecticut and as we were competing Healthcare Providers and Health Systems and they were learning from each other so much of the rest of america was not terribly impacted and then when it did hit places like florida, texas, arizona, Southern California ridge worked very aggressively to essentially bring the Health Systems and Healthcare Providers on the journey new york, new jersey, connecticut went on a couple moismonths before. The idea of learn and replicate and disseminate information out is
The food and Drug Administration during the obama presidency. Moss from theliam Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health talks about the global effort to develop a vaccine. Good morning, this is washington journal for september 10. In the first hour we will take your comments about bob woodward about the early assessments of coronavirus. The president saying that initially he wanted to play it down. If you want us to let us know your thoughts on this release of the audiotapes from yesterday and the reaction to it. If you support the president and Vice President call into 2027488000. If you support joe biden and kamala harris, 2027488001. If you are undecided or supporting others, 2027488002. You can text us your thoughts at 2027488003. Wj and postcspan on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. The Washington Post headline from one of the excerpts from the audio releases from yesterday, i always wanted to play it down. This is coming from Bob Woodwards book say book rage. This