Administrations goal. When is your reaction to that . Thanks you, senator. Let me take an initial response and ask my colleague to jump in. First, the request h that we are making here that we are support a u. S. To government funded total number of 20 treatment units. Number in aarger global strategy and one of the things we have been doing at the state department is to encourage donations from partner governments around the world. Expertse view of the fix unit number of treatment beds is critical to controlling the epidemic but we resources for Community Care centers that can into rural places and be mobile for spikes in the disease isolation and containment. Let me ask nancy to join in here. Simply that. Looking at a strategy that is care and isolation and safe burials and intensive social to that people change their habits all take be together is what we are all is what we are seeing in how many of the highly toective areas is beginning yield results and we need to keep at that in
, a have recovered, one has passed away. There have been nine in america. 13,005 hundred and west africa. The situation is serious. It means that all of government has to respond in a way to do so. My strong suggested principles of this, first we must fight the disease at its epicenter in west andca, in liberia, guinea sierra leone. We also want to look at countries near these areas where it has not spread. We want to use the expertise of the department of state, usaid, nih, fda, any Government Agency that can play our role in making the world, with africa, and america safe. That is what we want to do. The second principle is we must protect america. We must do it at our points of entry. Finally, we need to utilize the best science and a ploy of Public Health agencies in a way that is effective. That is for the cdc, our state and local Health Departments, scientists developing vaccines and treatments at nih and approving their safety and efficacy at fda. As we look at what government w
National standards for not only the equipment but the training so that we have a National Response regardless of whether where someone might appear that needs help . Could you share with us and did you respond or did the president respond to the National Nurses united request . So, with regard to the issue of make something you are that our Health Care Workers were prepared, i think we need to think about it in a number of different levels. The first is in that screening and monitoring and thats what state and local Health Care Workers are doing, with then checking on the people who have come from these countries. Second is that that initial front line worker, in a Health Care Institution that needs to be able to detect and isolate, ask the right question. If off fever what is your travel history . The next is the level where treatment will occur and as we describe in our submission, this will be in a more state by state basis and where the cases are in terms of treatment. The question
The question was, should the United States for the first time in history attempt prior restraint publication . Someone who believes he has good civil liberties, my instinct was absolutely not. I looked at what was going to be published. We had what we called tickets. I would not have had clearance for this kind of stuff and thermonuclear weapons and it was going to come out in a magazine. We knew how long it took the french to go from fission diffusion. Fission to fusion. This was an arms important. This was enormously important. Thermonuclear weapons was put out in the open literature. Hear thats whenever i hear that a country has claimed that it has successfully detonated a thermonuclear weapon and you read that our judgment is, no, not really. Im happy about that. Because the level of destruction damaging, ith more makes a difference. In the terms of deterrence theory, i would say not much. Not much. Thank you all very much. [applause] today begins the open enrollment for those want
Three quarters of the cdc component is to strengthen the Warning Systems detection, Laboratory Networks and others. There are funds to respond r57dly and prevent where possible. Covering the u. S. , we have made progress. We are doing it through a series of levels. Each requires significant investments. Stopping it at the source. Screening travellers when they leave africa, when they arrive to the u. S. Tracing each traveller for 21 days in all of the 50 states. The states are doing an excellent job. With excellent participation from custom and Border Protection which has electronically collected data in hours. We are seeing most states reaching 100 of travellers regularly according to the information they are reporting to us. This is a relatively new program. Its going smoothly. It is working on borrowed dollarsmedollar s. We need funding to support this and key measures of prevention, ke text and response in the u. S. , Public Health systems, hospitals, Laboratory Networks, active mo