Chief scientist of the food and Drug Administration serving from 20092014. Oodman, good morning. As you talk about your work chief scientist and how it relates to the fdas role with finding a vaccine . The science of vaccines is very complex. They are complex the study. On thentry relies experts at the fda to ensure that any vaccine that goes into clinical studies and oversees the Development Process and ultimately the approval process. Have such ane amazing reduction in childhood illness. Approved, itey are is monitoring their safety. To particular scientists work directly with the companies or is it a team effort . How does that work . There is an office called the office of Vaccine Research and there are experts on a whole range of issues from their chemistry, their manufacturing, their trials. There are different scientific disciplines that interacted the process, but at the end, it is completely independent. Host when it comes to you personally, just to care five to out just to cl
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Simply not coming back. Markethe back of a labor surprise in treasury yields, drifting higher. That is the call you are looking for. Lets start with the jobs number and what it means for the policy effort in washington. I think the number is a sigh of relief. The markets were trying to get jittery going into friday, not knowing how bad or good the numbers would be. This is clearly a step in the positive direction. What this means for policy is yet to be seen, still a lot of bickering going on between the house and senate. If anything, in some respects i would argue that the good payroll number argues for congress to pass another deal to support the economy. A lot of the positive momentum we have seen in the last three months is because of fiscal stimulus. Treasury yields higher by eight basis points on the 30year. This is something that you are looking for. Thender how independent sweetener is of the next move down in washington . Subadra i think they are all closely tied to each other
And i pale more that announcement coming just hours after cal, so i so said that there would not be any rotating blackouts tonight. Thousands of customers were in the dark for hours last night as temperatures soared into the triple digits. Kron fours dan thorn is live in san and elmo hes been talking with people about the heat and their concerns over the potential for more outages in the coming days well ken and pam, the rolling power blackouts for on some people out here are a painful reminder. Last falls Public Safety power shutoff done by pg and e with these high temperatures its been essential for people to keep cool and many of them are also doing their best to conserve energy or the hope for the power to stay on in marine county, the scorching hot temperatures threatening the area saturday with another round of outages something people in san anselmo do not want to deal with again it was really had no notice that it was happening whatsoever on obviously a surprise we didnt know i
The food and Drug Administration during the obama presidency. Moss from theliam Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health talks about the global effort to develop a vaccine. Good morning, this is washington journal for september 10. In the first hour we will take your comments about bob woodward about the early assessments of coronavirus. The president saying that initially he wanted to play it down. If you want us to let us know your thoughts on this release of the audiotapes from yesterday and the reaction to it. If you support the president and Vice President call into 2027488000. If you support joe biden and kamala harris, 2027488001. If you are undecided or supporting others, 2027488002. You can text us your thoughts at 2027488003. Wj and postcspan on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. The Washington Post headline from one of the excerpts from the audio releases from yesterday, i always wanted to play it down. This is coming from Bob Woodwards book say book rage. This