Still rising why wasnt the United States more prepared . You cant be prepared if youre not funded to be prepared. Narrator who is accountable . Do you think that this administration has done what it needs to do to protect healthcare workers . I think a lot more could be done. Narrator and what will happen when a vaccine is ready . Given the abject failure, of the administraon we do worry. Narrator now on frontline americas medical supply crisis. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for puic broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. The Ford Foundation working with visionaries on the frontlines of soal change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. Additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism. The park foundation
Still rising why wasnt the United States more prepared . You cant be prepared if youre not funded to be prepared. Narrator who is accountable . Do you think that this administration has done what it needs to do to protect healthcare workers . I think a lot more could be done. Narrator and what will happen when a vaccine is ready . Given the abject failure, of the administraon we do worry. Narrator now on frontline americas medical supply crisis. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for puic broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. The Ford Foundation working with visionaries on the frontlines of soal change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. Additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism. The park foundation
After covid19 vaccine. We are going to be talking in particular of an Innovative New model to try to address the issues around how to encourage accelerated research and development of important vaccine candidates, but also, how they can produced and distributed in ways that take an International Perspective and a perspective of equity and a Public Healthdriven distribution approach. So, were going to be talking a lot about the covax and theres a slide for the audience to get more grounded in what is covax. Its the vaccine pillar of something called the act accelerator to speed up access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. There are three elements of the necessary tools for an effective medical and Public Health response. This was launched in april and it was really launched as a collaboration of both government, importantly including the European Union and their president , but also philanthropy and not for profit organizations coming together, recognizing this critical need as
You can be seated at the witness table. I want to introduce mr. Mike bowen. Mr. Bowen is the executive vice ameritech,f prestige which is americas largest medical surgical mask maker. Your story is a very powerful one. To my colleagues, mr. Bowen has wins i think, really he an award for tenacity, because over three president ial administrations, he has been banging on the door warning, asking for, pointing out the america has a dangerous dependence on Foreign Countries for products that we need here at home. So this is very important testimony and we welcome you. We thank you for traveling to be with us today with all the extenuating circumstances to travel. We are very grateful to you. So you are not recognized for your statement now recognized for your statement. And then you will hear from the members. I am sure both your statement will provoke questions and that you will get good ones from both sides of the aisle. I should add something here, and that is, this issue of our terrible
A negative ebola test result means a patient doesnt have ebola but just this week a physician died after being flown to nebraska for emergency treatment after initial tests showed a negative test. His colleagues are in quarantine causing greater anxiety in a medical profession lost more than 500 to ebola. Hospitals and Healthcare Workers were to have proper guidance on personal protective kwichlt. Cdc guideline do not require a threeweek selfisolation period for healthcare officials. They can return to work immediately. But the hospitals i talked to did not agree. I asked an er doctor from my district about whether any of his colleagues volunteering in west africa could come back to work immediately. He had a simple response. I quote him. He said, they should stay away. The administration continues to pose travel restrictions and quarantines yet respected institutions have policies to ensure Public Health is protected. Its impossible for the American People to understand why the govern