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
Keep this virus outside of the United States. Already, there has been a vigorous response. We hope to hear more today about exactly what has been done, and what needs to be done Going Forward. Two weeks ago, Thomas R Duncan traveled here from liberia. By way of brussels and dulles airport. He fell ill, and presented himself for treatment at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in dallas. Mr. Duncans diagnosis set in motion an extensive Public Health operation involving federal, state, and local officials to identify and assess any individuals with whom he may have had contact. A process called Contact Tracing. That Contact Tracing effort continues today. Our prayers are with everyone who is currently being monitored as part of this incident. We are thankful that to date, there been no additional cases of ebola standing from this case. It is difficult, but it is one of the few ways to contain the disease. Containment also requires swift coordinated action. In this hearing, and investigati
Happening in the future. I want to go into a little more areil first on what we doing to promote safe and effective care. Safe and effective care, we had already begun several days ago to ramp up the education and training of Health Care Workers at this facility. May be doneebola safely, but its hard to do safely. It requires scrupulous attention to Infection Control and even a single inadvertent, innocent slip can result in contamination. We are recommending to the facility that the number of workers that care for anyone with respect to ebola began to an absolute minimum. We recommend the procedures that are undertaken to support the care of that individual be committed to essential procedures will stop forth about we are looking at personal protective equipment, understanding theres about theres a balance and putting more on isnt always safer and may make it harder to provide effective care. Recommending there be a fulltime individual responsible only for the oversight, supervision,
And you standing there just so nice and forceful. Bill, despiteady all the help that you got from Public Office, all of it would not have mattered it was the oneonone, bipartisan consensus that you pulled off. It was pretty incredible. I think the most remarkable thing about jim was that i cannot say the day that he died because i had not seen him for two months before that. The same remarkable man the day that he died that he was when i met him over almost 37, 38 years ago. As the old saying goes, there are two things you have to know about jim brady. One was that he was tougher than you, and two, that he was smarter than you. Those were helpful going in. He had an incredible mind, but the thing that i loved about him most is he seemed more driven by his heart, as much by his heart as his mind. As i said, he never let up. He understood that it was really necessary to get important rings done, to question the judgment of other people. But the thing that he never did which is done today
Higher education. Appreciate it. Guest it has been a pleasure. Host that props up cspan bus s big 10 college tour. If you missed any of them, go to our website, cspan. Org. That does it for todays washington journal. We will see you back here tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. Eastern time [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] than four weeks to election day. Coming up a bit later today, maryland congresswoman Donna Edwards headlines an event on diversity and elected officials. A number of other specialists who study under represented groups. A part of the forum at the center for american progress, we will have that live at 12 30 p. M. Eastern. Our campaign 2014 coverage continues with a week full of debates. Tonight at 7 00, live coverage of the pennsylvania governors debate between republic governor republican governor tom corbett incumbent and tom wolf. Then live coverage of the Illinois House debate between the 17t