That we have nine. I am understand but we dont know. It is the travesty with the single step was one location in zero leone they know what the hell theyre talking about we need that agenda right now. To understand those transmissions is it just of population . Our other things going on . But we have an obligation not to have another blacks one event. But we dont have a clue we need data in clinical outcomes. But looking at what makes a difference what can we do about that . Can we . With those dire conditions with those intensive care of kids. And also i just have to say right now we have to do a better job. But we have a problem that we always couched things with certainty but that does not exist. That is different from being scary. Seeing the l. A. Times on sunday with a piece on fever. But there is the problem with that with that definition so there was a certain sense of selection maybe it was minimal but it was their. I personally heard clinicians with the ignition of the Treatmen
Good morning. Im honored to be participating in this prestigious symposium. I will say at the outset that is the director the Research Facility we are in the business of developing countermeasures for those organisms which require high levels of biocontainment and what keeps me up at night is what happens if one of my lab workers catches this experiment. We do have medical Treatment Facilities and special containment studies unit in bethesda. We will handle cases of occupational exposure from the four teacher campus. Cdc has memory and two years ago i convened a symposium with two colleagues rick davey and lisa hensley bringing the medical directors of those various facilities together to review medical countermeasures that could be possibly prepositioned in those facilities so they would be available on short notice. It was somewhat disturbing at that time that there were no countermeasures. The best we could do was to review the literature and see where things were in the pipeline an
A Doctors Without Borders letters just back from sierra leone is being held in isolation in a new jersey hospital despite showing no signs of having ebola. She says shes going to sue over her treatment. We will speak to a nurse just back from guinea and economist Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University which has a team in guinea. We will also speak to John Hopkins University professor nancy kass about the use of experimental drugs to treat ebola patients. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The governors of new york and new jersey are facing federal pressure to reverse new quarantine rules on medical workers returning from west africa. Under the policy, arriving passengers with the risk of ebola exposure will be placed in a 21 day quarantine. Illinois hasnt limited a similar policy. White house officials lobbied new Jersey Governor Chris Christie and new York Governor Andrew Cuomo over t
Africa, debate grows in the United States over quarantining Health Care Workers returning from the region. A Doctors Without Borders letters just back from sierra leone is being held in isolation in a new jersey hospital despite showing no signs of having ebola. She says shes going to sue over her treatment. We will speak to a nurse just back from guinea and economist Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University which has a team in guinea. We will also speak to John Hopkins University professor nancy kass about the use of experimental drugs to treat ebola patients. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The governors of new york and new jersey are facing federal pressure to reverse new quarantine rules on medical workers returning from west africa. Under the policy, arriving passengers with the risk of ebola exposure will be placed in a 21 day quarantine. Illinois hasnt limited a similar policy.
Representative Maxine Waters will join us, well speak to mayor london breed, dr. Kavita patel and dr. Nancy kass and covid19 testing every day. Testing remains a hurdle but seems were doing our part to stop the spread, especially social distancing. What this graph illustrates is amazing work of the American People to really adhere to social distancing. This was nothing we had ever attempted to do as a nation and the world hadnt attempted to do. But they were able to decrease the number of cases so that in general most of the metro areas never had an issue of complete crisis care of all of their hospitals. Washington is our first stop on the trip across america. Two of msnbcs analysts, also with us, nbc senior politics dieter. Glad to have you all with us. Philip, start with testing. Public Health Officials are saying that testing needs to double or maybe triple before the u. S. Can safely reopen. This week President Trump announced guidelines for states to ease their stayathome orders.