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
, a have recovered, one has passed away. There have been nine in america. 13,005 hundred and west africa. The situation is serious. It means that all of government has to respond in a way to do so. My strong suggested principles of this, first we must fight the disease at its epicenter in west andca, in liberia, guinea sierra leone. We also want to look at countries near these areas where it has not spread. We want to use the expertise of the department of state, usaid, nih, fda, any Government Agency that can play our role in making the world, with africa, and america safe. That is what we want to do. The second principle is we must protect america. We must do it at our points of entry. Finally, we need to utilize the best science and a ploy of Public Health agencies in a way that is effective. That is for the cdc, our state and local Health Departments, scientists developing vaccines and treatments at nih and approving their safety and efficacy at fda. As we look at what government w
National standards for not only the equipment but the training so that we have a National Response regardless of whether where someone might appear that needs help . Could you share with us and did you respond or did the president respond to the National Nurses united request . So, with regard to the issue of make something you are that our Health Care Workers were prepared, i think we need to think about it in a number of different levels. The first is in that screening and monitoring and thats what state and local Health Care Workers are doing, with then checking on the people who have come from these countries. Second is that that initial front line worker, in a Health Care Institution that needs to be able to detect and isolate, ask the right question. If off fever what is your travel history . The next is the level where treatment will occur and as we describe in our submission, this will be in a more state by state basis and where the cases are in terms of treatment. The question
The question was, should the United States for the first time in history attempt prior restraint publication . Someone who believes he has good civil liberties, my instinct was absolutely not. I looked at what was going to be published. We had what we called tickets. I would not have had clearance for this kind of stuff and thermonuclear weapons and it was going to come out in a magazine. We knew how long it took the french to go from fission diffusion. Fission to fusion. This was an arms important. This was enormously important. Thermonuclear weapons was put out in the open literature. Hear thats whenever i hear that a country has claimed that it has successfully detonated a thermonuclear weapon and you read that our judgment is, no, not really. Im happy about that. Because the level of destruction damaging, ith more makes a difference. In the terms of deterrence theory, i would say not much. Not much. Thank you all very much. [applause] today begins the open enrollment for those want