Chung, present. Sanchez breslin karshmer, present. Before we go on to the meeting itself id like to welcome our new commissioner commissioner jimmy royce. He is no stranger to the this department having worked here a full 20 years before retiring as Deputy Director back in 2007. We are happy to welcome him back and to assist us in developing the policy for the department that he worked for. So, welcome on board commissioner. Think you commissioner kalb next item please yes. Item 2 is the approval of the minutes of Mission Meeting of august 2, 2016 the minutes are before you for approval. Is there a motion for acceptance . Moved and seconded. Other corrections or additions to the minutes . If not we are prepared for the boat. All those in favor say, aye [chorus of ayes] opposed . The minutes have been approved item 3, directors report good afternoon commissioners and welcome to make commissioner royce. I wanted to just get a couple eight could i do about items on the agenda on the repor
Committee meeting starting at 1 oclock so well have at least two Committee Meetings in september. Happy to answer questions you might have. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions for the director . Drether huish i want to inform you that i am entertaining conversation of changing the chair of this committee of the esg. Mr. Paskinjordan doesnt want to serve as the chair . I dont know if he doesnt want to, i think it is just the time. Okay. Um, 23 if there is no discussion we can open up to Public Comment. Anyone who would like to comment on the directors report . Please come up. Good afternoon commissioners. [inaudible] my only issue is on september 14 is when reccsf holds the membership meetings so cant attend the committee which has interest for a number of our members and actually for some of my [inaudible] colleagues retirees. It would be really helpful to schedule that esg Committee Meeting on a different date. Thank you. Okay, thanks. Anyone else . Public comment is closed. Thank yo
Well, i think the data i showed, especially that curve, pretty clearly demonstrates that that we can identify the vast majority but not all cases within 21 days. So when were talking about declaring a country free of disease, then twice that, 42 days is the criteria that w. H. O. Issues. And i think intuitively you can run the graph out there and you can see there are no new cases at the far end. So it seems to me that thats, that additional safety precaution is clear . No . Obviously not. One more response, yes. What would you say to that second little hunt when you looked at your very nice geometric distribution, roundabout 14 days, it looks like there was a small second peak . And i wonder, if an alert reporter were to ask you, does that suggest that the time point one should be later and that the true doubling is to take care of unexpected, unrecognized second outbreaks . Or is it really the doubling of the that, you know . Thats a good observation and i think you need to just keep
Does anybody know the answer to that, how it is being done . Should we be thinking about creating one . Dr. James leduc . I go back to the analogous analogies with the sars outbreak, and at that time both cdc and who led an aggressive effort to make sure that the virus was available to the International Scientific community for analysis. That went very well. I was at cdc then and spent a lot of time packinghouse strains of sars to share with others. So that worked very well. I do not know what the problems are in that, but i suspect it starts with the countries to have ownership of the material. But it is more complex than that, and i really do not have any answers. Okay. I will move to the next question. Medical school. Thank you all for your work and presentations. I wanted to also thank dr. Daniel bausch for bringing us back to the reality of the fact that it is in west africa and the bulk of the diseases in west africa have spend a good time backandforth in liberia. And i can tell
James deluc. I want to start with a question and i and inspired by a couple presentations. What it has to do with for the purposes of working on kyushus like protective equipment, disinfection, waste disposal, has any thought been given to what is an appropriate surrogate for beat ebola virus in terms of the behavior of survival under various conditions yet does not require being in a Laboratory Facilities in order to run an experiment. To people have any ideas . Dr. Peters . There is the species of ebola which is not pathogenic for humans and can be downgraded from 4. In addition to that, colleagues have produced an ebola virus by genetic engineering to ward off interference which ebola has and that is probably not pathogenic, institution or review board giving permission to use it. Any ideas about that . There are various viruses, and the question, you do those experiments and say is does that react the same way as the real virus but that would be another idea. From the point of view