I cant answer that. But i take care of patients and i do my job. Other people do their job. Lou the white house infuriating many with its indefensible refusal to not order it now and travel from west african countries by ebola vmax is at this point our core priority is protecting the American Public, we are not going to put in place a travel ban and that is because as described, putting in place a travel ban could have a pretty perverse effect on people who are seeking to travel to this country and it would give them an incentive to not be candid or honest even about their travel history. Lou Thomas Eric Duncan enter the United States only by lying according to some. There was no travel ban in place then or now. The Obama Administration is clearly not putting the protection of our Public Health as its principal priority. Here is the map that shows the african nation that has been restricted travel from the of ebola affected nations. More than 25 countries have done so. We will be takin
I cant answer that. But i take care of patients and i do my job. Other people do their job. Lou the white house infuriating many with its indefensible refusal to not order it now and travel from west african countries stricken by ebola vmax is at this point our core priority is protecting the American Public, we are not going to put in place a travel ban and that is because as described, putting in place a travel ban could have a pretty perverse effect on people who are seeking to travel to this country and it would give them an incentive to not be candid or honest even about their travel history. Lou Thomas Eric Duncan enter the United States only by lying according to some. There was no travel ban in place then or now. The Obama Administration is clearly not putting the protection of our Public Health as its principal priority. Here is the map that shows the african nation that has been restricted travel from the of ebola affected nations. More than 25 countries have done so. We will
The taxpayers want to be safe. The taxpayers want to know that our government is prepared. In this case, we leave no stone unturned in an shoring and shoring today that america is planning for tomorrow. Beginning in march of 2014 in the west african nation the world first learned about yet another new outbreak of the ebola virus. Due to poor detection its possible the outbreak started late last year. By august, ebola spread to liberia, siberia and sierra leone. According to the centers for Disease Control and prevention ebola epidemic is the largest in history and sadly the virus has claimed at least 4,000 lives to date. By the end of september, the cdc confirmed the diagnosis of the first travel associated case of ebola in the United States. The situation is rapidly developing into changing and americans are understandably worried. Worried that their governments response to the outbreak and in particular, the steps we are taking to control the spread of ebola. With the high fatality r
Them before we transfer them to the Burial Ground so it is extremely important that proper burial procedures are followed all the time. What more with more resources hope the process as you just described . We need more burial teams. In the countries they are not enough. Its probably one third of the need. We need body bags and training for the burial teams as well as the vehicles for transportation. With the committees indulgence i would like to play a short video clip showing how the final stage of the process is currently being handled. [inaudible] [inaudible] thank you mr. Chairman. Right now there are a lot of people watching this hearing and many of them do not know the extent of the crisis in west africa. They do not know the reasons he of the need. You have a microphone in front of you an opportunity to reach millions of people this morning. If there is one thing you want to talk the American People, what would that be . Thank you mr. Cummings for giving me this opportunity. We
Sample . Some of those viruses came from the bbi resources, nih, and some of those viruses came from laboratories that received the initial seed from cdc. Thats helpful to know. In some conversations ive been a part of at nih, they indicated that the real key here was to get the dna sequence which china did eventually put up, i believe, at the end of december, early january. And that in terms of going after the vaccine, it was that sequencing that really mattered most Getting Started on Vaccine Development, and there are other scientists who are very distinguished that believe that the delay of getting the virus sample actually didnt set them back. Is that an accurate assessment or do you have a disagreement in that view . I know scientists disagree, so do we up here. But im kind of hearing that having the sequencing really mattered most and getting the virus important but did not set them back in proceeding to get the Vaccine Development underway. Sir, china posted the sequence on feb