Goes by, we are getting better. You to keepst ask everybody in your thoughts and your prayers and lets just hope and pray that we will not get too many bumps in the road before we get to the vaccine, the drug that will help us. To tell you we have lost our 68th West Virginia. And 86yearold female from canal county. I just go through it over and over and over. It is a terrib thing to have to do. I want to be really respectable to the people we have lost. I do not want them or their theyies to ever think that were a statistic. We are deeply indebted to all the knowledge and the beauty they gave us through their lives. We absolutely want all of you to think about then and their loved ones and keep them in your thoughts and your prayers. Please do so. You that wead to four withing in week an executive order today that im signing that will allow these businesses to reopen, and so list the 14 day quarantine order for outofstate travelers. Effect atwill go into midnight on thursday, may 21. N
Too many blind spots and weak links in places in africa and elsewhere. We have large amounts of travel and animal human interface and large members of people. All three of the cdc components and all of the components are so important. The cdcrelated components are domestic and stopping ebola and preventing the next ebola through the global work. I know its a few weeks ago and they are four individuals from cdc in guinea. France is taking the lead on Ebola Response in this country because the United States needs to take a more leadershipactive role or does it have the capacity to do so . Excuse me. For the cdc specific response, we provide a comprehensive Public Health approach in each country. As of today, we have approximately 175 staff on the ground. We have the most staff in sierra leone. We also have more than 20 staff or roughly 20 in guinea. We get the french speaking staff and we have 12 as of today dealing with that cluster and trying to stop it at the source. What are about en
They are almost complete and they are very optimistic that they start next phase of the trial with both of those vaccines in west africa. This slide indicated that there was a third company, but they were not expected to engage in phase one trials until the fall of 2015 which is a substantial ways away from where we are today. There other potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline. We are supporting some of those. They are behind this timeline and we are right now focused on trying to figure out if these vaccines are and effective and if they are, get them into use to control the epidemic in west africa. Part of the emergency funding request will be 157 million for barta to continue to accelerate the development and manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics for the outbreak. My understanding from talking to the folks at new link genetics is these Clinical Trials that have been ongoing at walter reed and the national sn institute of allergy and Infectious Disease, there is good rappo
Generally nihs role. Bart thats role to support advanced development of products. Barta is and will support the advanced development of vaccines and therapeutics and get them scaled up so that if they work they can be used in a Mass Vaccination Campaign or in therapies. Thank you. I yield back. Now recognize mr. Wax man for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. Frieden, you and other experts have said numerous times the key to protecting americans from ebola is stopping the ooh disease at its source in west africa. Can you explain the approach in west africa to contain the spread . In brief to identify patients with ebola promptly, get them isolated and cared for safely. And in the event that individuals die, have them buried respectfully and safely without spreading disease. To turn off unsafe care and unsafe burial. Thats what ef we have done until now. The size, scale and speed requires now remains daunting. Instead of dozens or a handful of cases, thousands of cases to deal wi
Enrolling. Number two, when it comes to the individual mandate, i think i will say two things about proposals from republicans that said it as their mission to eliminate, decimate come sabotage obamacare from the beginning, who were willing to shut the government down because of their opposition to obamacare we have to take their proposals with a grain of salt. I dont think they are filled with sincerity to the sincere desire to improve the system. Theyve made it clear that their goal was to eliminate the system and thereby eliminate the possibility for millions of americans with preexisting conditions or who dont have insurance the possibility of getting it. Number two, when it comes to and we talked about this when they were shutting down the government on the president s refusal to pay ransom, obamacare ransom in exchange for getting the government open or in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. When we talk about delaying the socalled individual mandate what does that mean concre