approach things. do i doubt that we are going to stop this, the spread here in this one hospital? no. i firmly believe we will stop it. thank you. >> next question. dr. frieden, i was just wondering, does the updated guidance on when screening will start at additional airports that were announced last week. screeningay we begin at jfk international airport in new york city. that screening went smoothly. there are a lot of lessons being learned through that to make sure that screening goes smoothly from other passengers. we are anticipating starting screening at the other four airports this week and we anticipate that starting on thursday. next question.

can you speak to how i health-care worker using these apparentlytions caught the ebola when people who had close contact in that apartment for several days did not, and do you have any plans to transfer this new case to one of the specialty households? to the firstd question, when patients have a bowl of they become progressively infectious the sicker they become because the amount of virus in their body and in their secretions increases. contact with this individual, the indexed patient in dallas, prior to his isolation are not yet out of their 21-day exposure period. we are not out of the woods yet with potential additional cases.

medical procedures involve dealing with blood, body fluids, other thingsit, that may have very large quantities of fire us. that is why the personal protective equipment and the protocols are very important. as someone gets sicker, they get more infectious. we will look at all the possibilities to ensure the safe care of patients to the greatest extent possible. next question. >> i was wondering whether you clarify --hy could this health-care worker was not in the initial group of 48. earlier this morning [indiscernible] said there were 19 hospital employees they were tracking. is this person part of that 19, or part of a larger group?

the hospital by its own track record has not provided the best information. they have had to do a lot of walk-backs. i know the hospital initially said this morning there was no great fever. are there any other symptoms? is there any other information that we need? i'm sorry, i have forgotten your first question. >> is this person part of the 19 the hospital is tracking or part of a larger group? contacts identified were individuals who had contact with the index patient up until september 28, the day that he was isolated. this individual was not exposed in that period of time. are, as far as we know,

the only the bow he may have had contact with before he became isolated. in terms of the care in the hospital, from the 28th to october 8, the date he passed away, that is the period when there may have been additional contacts given that this individual was exposed to then. that is what is being investigated now. contact tracing period identified what we believe are the 48 that were exposed up to the time he was isolated. now we are doing a new investigation given the information last night of anyone whenay have been exposed what should have been effective isolation. in terms of the clinical status of the patient, i can say that our information is at least some time back, she was showing only mild system -- mild symptoms and

low-grade fever. monitorill continue to very closely to ensure that she gets the best possible care. we will take two more questions on the phone. >> next question from donna young. >> i wanted to find out specifically with this patient, the new patient, why was she not initially included in the 48 that were monitored? dr.so wanted to ask frieden, when he was in africa, did you take special precautions that you normally wouldn't have, with putting on the protective equipment? indicated, we monitored all contacts up to the time of the index patient's admission on september 28.

now we will be evaluating and monitoring all contacts who may have had exposure during the hospital stay. lakey two, and on that further in a moment in terms of precautions in africa, yes, they are very specific it for personal equipment, taking it off and putting it on. >> i really don't have much to add besides what you provided. the health care workers that were in full personal protective equipment during their involvement and the care of the initial individual or about as minimal risk and those individuals had guidance to do self-monitoring that were not in that initial 48. the individual was doing that. the earliest signs of illness, checked her temperature and what

was evaluated. thank you. >> we will take the last question. >> last question [indiscernible] thanks for making such great information available today. is it for people to be on dialysis or be integrated during an ebola infection? is that something you have seen treated in western countries? just wondering how common that is and how health care workers have had to do with that situation. thanks so much. >> thank you. i don't know the details of the other patients cared for in other parts of the world. but i am not familiar with any prior patient with ebola has undergone either intubation or dialysis. certainly, it would be very unusual if it has happened before.

i do want to clarify one thing. of the 48 contacts being monitored, including the 10 who thatnown to have contact, does include health care workers who had contact with the index patient before he was isolated in september 28. but it does not include anyone after september 28. i want to turn it over to commission a lakey to anything you want to say. >> thank you again for your support. obviously, a very trying day, a very busy night, work that is going on to make sure we fully understand what happened and we can make sure that the hospital has the expertise, the in cut -- the infection controls they need to protect any other individual from being exposed to this virus. the healtheciate

care worker on the earliest signs to come in and being careful appropriately. we are bringing in the resources we need to deal with this as quickly as possible. and thank you to the cdc for working with us. thank you. >> and thank you for the team that your work is doing in public health. makes ak on the ground really big difference and we are honored to be part of the team doing that with the state and the city and the hospital. bottom line here, we are very concerned that a pulmonary positive has been identified in a health-care worker who provided care to the index patient. we will have confirmatory testing later today at cdc. we will identify any additional the individual, before they were diagnosed and any other individuals who may have provided care for the index

patient and similarly would have been exposed and actively monitor those individuals. we will also take a thorough investigation to find out how this may have happened and we will ramp up infection control to do whatever we can to minimize the risk that there would be any future infections. out to, our thoughts go the health care worker, their family, understanding how difficult a time this is for them and other health care workers who now may have been exposed or are now known to have been exposed and really need to go through that anxiety-producing time. these are the individuals who we need to monitor. this is how we break the links of transmission. it is possible that we will see additional cases in those who had contact with either of the two patients. but there is no doubt that we can break the links in the chain of transmission. we have done it before and we will do it here and the team in

dallas is doing an excellent job to make sure that happens. thank you all for it you're interested -- thank you all so much for your interest in covering this topic. >> the second thing -- to the panelturn discussion in the makeup of the office brothers and had to get more women and minorities to run for public office. >> on the republican side, the republican state leadership committee, it is like the state-level committee for state legislative seats. we have the equipment on the democratic side. the rslc has been since 2010. the $40 million spent, the red map strategy the senate races in order to pick up nearly 700

chambers in 2010, that was a big deal. but since then, they have spent in the 2012 cycle, they have spent $3 million just on candidate recruitment of women and people of color. in this cycle, 2014 cycle, they have spent $6 million. --$9 million just in gas just since 2010 in the recruitment of women and people of color. affiliation, you know this is not the grand old party of yesteryear. these are going to be very, very conservative folks and they have recruited, as a result of this investment, more than 150 people of color and more than 300 women. -- they have increased

largest major increase in the number of female in the state ure is 27% since 2010. there is major activity happening on that side and major investment. there is nothing equivalent to that on the democratic side. money fores not grant the purposes of candidate recruitment. there is no significant -- their program is called -- ironically, they have a name for the female program and not a name for the people of color program. but is called right women right now. they are one of the congressional level called project growth so there is additional investment and there's nothing on our side. donna doesn't get $3 million to recruit women or people of

color. it just doesn't happen. so we've got to try to figure out that imbalance is well. democrats traditionally -- i mean, democrats have i think 1100 or maybe 1200 state legislative seats held by women and republicans have 636. so democratic women have always done better. but they will catch up. wenow from our business, recruit 200 candidates a year and we don't have a $6 million budget. so it's not that hard. it won't be hard for them to catch up with the kinds of investments they are making. >> it's fascinating and i think we will have a lot of questions from the audience. all of you have brought up new and interesting things today. writing, looking at it all together, you present an interesting vision looking back,

let's say, historically, which you can read as the glass half-empty or the glass half-full. we have things of progress, such as having a black resident, and write -- onand you the one hand, we have the signs of progress. on the other hand, the glass half-empty site is terrible. both really, really bad, in terms of the numbers but also in terms of the incidents like the shooting of michael brown which is not an isolated event necessarily. how do you balance it in your mind? where do you land? >> recalcitrant optimism. [laughter] but also realistic optimism. at ason who looked contemporary state of affairs --

a skeptical person could say, well, there is all this organizing, there are these candidates, and they are far .ore elected officials the landscape does not look anything like it did in 1955 and it culminates in the election of this individual barack obama to the presidency and how did that work out for you? that would be a significant question when we look at the repression. we look at the staggering incarceration. presumed thele point at which a black person could be elected, it would signify that these are the things have already been resolved. the fact that those two things are here below of -- are capable

of the existing makes people go back to the drawing board and say what else is there? there is some additional ingredient that we have failed to recognize. or in the most cynical and pessimistic view, this is as good as this particular system is capable of getting, for people who represent political minorities or even if the demographics change possibly the political majority. we have seen this in other places. with that said, i think we believe that -- my perspective as a historian come over the long-term, people have been of conscience and of sincere effort have won more often than not. not unnecessarily have been undefeated but air -- but a good record to get to the playoffs. >> i think that is a good note to end on. i did want to ask about voter suppression, but maybe somebody in the audience can have that question, too. >> [indiscernible]

>> i originate from ferguson, missouri. i know you say that it is the outskirts. he who controls the narrative, it would be reluctant to, if you in friendship heights. residence, there is no difference. i would never acknowledge ferguson excluding the fact that it is now on the map. to thankall, i want you all for bringing this information in this scientific matter to the forefront as is the only way that it is legitimized. since president obama has been in office, i have been calling for a race conversation. i don't know what to tell my children. i don't believe that.

but to combat the systemic barriers and institutions that keep us at odds, i currently welcome a conversation that is open, on the table and honest so i can have some good working tools to create good citizens. you just wanted to thank all basically for having the conversation and i look forward to being in any part of it. >> that is a very important point. fostered --rtland it was called governing for racial equity conference. can tell, it was the first of its kind and it was designed for government officials and government workers and to create government that was equitable. more than 500 people attended from all over the country, including many mayors and elected officials. we can prompt their local governments and lead conversations that don't have to be had at the national level. we don't need, it's -- we don't

need congress to have this conversation. this can happen where you live. -- au have a good merrier good mayor and you can have this conversation, i would encourage that. >> in the back. >> [indiscernible] how are you doing today? wamu.al public radio in 2012, there were 13,620 registered voters in ferguson at of a registered voter base of 15,000 -- a 1500. the st. louis county board election commissioner says that there were 128 newly registered voters in ferguson missouri, an increase of just less than 1%. while an 11% increase was possible.

what do you think is the biggest difference between -- why do you think it was only 1% as opposed to 11%. what is making the biggest difference? >> one thing we should be mindful of anything that comes out about the number of registered voters, one, anyone who has been around politics for five minutes, knows that those are numbers i have to be very closely scrutinized. the initial report was that there were 3000 newly registered voters and then that was revised to 128. elections says that they made a clerical mistake. i am not prepared to accept that that number is valid. that first. the second is, when we talk about the turnout for the previous election, there was a municipal election about two weeks prior -- a very racially contentious municipal election

two weeks prior to michael brown's death. the blacks went out there with 6% and the whites came out with about 12%. we've got to run with those numbers but they don't quite reflect the hrd of it. in the election prior to that, which was the 2012 presidential went out the blacks with 71% of eligible voters and the whites turned out with 72%. so this has a great deal to do with off year elections and whether or not the public even know there is a primary coming up. and given this is an overwhelmingly democratic county. i think those are things we should keep in mind about that. i certainly would not go anywhere near giving credibility to that 128 percent number until there has -- it has been much more thoroughly scrutinized. itapparently on the ballot, it does not even indicate what

party candidates are with. so there are structural omens that create confusion. yes. sorry, christina. making you run all over. >> my name is betsy mckinney from the women donors network. youia, i would like to ask specifically, this issue about getting women and people of color elected, some people say is this a matter of add women and people of color and stir and that solves the problem? term, moving candidates and people of color, what are the values we want to address and speak about as well so that it's not really just about race or gender, but a bigger conversation we need to have? >> great question.

said, and, as brenda womendy noted earlier, and people of color win at the same rate as men, as white men. when we run, we have a fair shot. as long as we have competitive districts and that is another -- there'sissue gerrymandering and creating legitimately instead of know,cts -- but we also where there are more women in more people of color elected, it is in states that are generally more progressive. and i don't mean liberal. i mean just more forward thinking and progressive. they are in places where there is a broader conversation. there is generally some kind of role of government issue here that is addressed where there is a more positive role of government and government is a

more positive influence in people's lives that they can actually make change to improve the lives of people, women and people of color do better in those, whether it's the legislature or the governor or the dialogue that is happening in that context. it is a plethora of issues that are really essential for us to deal with right now, right? that difficult candidates try to keep their head down and are void. it's about the role of women, about family-friendly work policies, not just pro-choice and anti-choice. it's about overall, anything that benefits women. if you want to get women voters, talk about leave. the one thing women need is time. immigration, incarceration, all of these issues are issues that really matter to these

communities. generally, older white male candidates will not talk about these issues. i am also -- i grew up in st. louis county. i would agree with her. ferguson to me is not a good example. when i grew up there, there were not black people in ferguson. it's a little different dynamic than the rest of st. louis county. anyway, none of you talked about the behavior of majorities. so in prince george's county where i live now, where it is majority african-american, it is the majority african-american electorate -- i mean, people in office. anyn't think there were non-african-americans on the ballot where i live except at

the state level. part of this is this generalization of people of color. i think we have to realize that , the expectation that we are going to be able to barriers whenny we are such a small percentage of the population, this whole generalization of people of color -- i just want to ask one other question. when you talk about recruitment, one of the things that troubles me is that -- the money issue, which you did not talk a lot about. a lot times, you want young people to volunteer. a lot of african-american kids are not in the position to volunteer to work unpaid internships long-term, to do any of that kind of thing. some of it is the policy of organizations that don't really

consider the communities they are working with. so if you could just comment. >> a really interesting question. is idea of sort of what asked of people to get involved politically, is there any effort to change that. i am wondering, too, what you are describing in prince george's county, are you familiar with the political differences in maryland that can cast light both on positive and negative in other places? i'm not sure about the letter of that but in terms of the former, again, another structural reform may be public financing of elections. arizona is one of the most conservative states in the country and we have one of the higher percentages of women in office. that is due in part because of their clean elections law. i think that might be another thing we can consider in a number of places that also addresses this issue of money in politics and whether or not people have the resources to actually run.

on the question of how africanes act, americans do have a harder time getting elected in non-majority minority districts. latinos do not. they actually perform pretty well in those districts. treating people of color as a monolith is a problem, as you say. but there are differences. >> quickly, on the issue of majorities, there is also a quirky thing about american objects that is counterintuitive but ask perfect sense. specificallytes tend to fare better in majority white context in which there are few other black people. people were shocked when barack obama won iowa because iowa has so few black people.

winning iowa was not nearly as hard as winning mississippi where voters would not come within a cotton field of a black candidate. i'm sorry -- [laughter] but it's true. in 1988, jesse jackson won vermont, which has an even smaller black population than iowa does. wherein are dynamics cometh people don't believe that you are representative of an actual group, whose interest they see as antithetical to aeir own, and if you are such marginal number demographically that they don't feel threatened, then you actually stand a chance -- beyond face value. >> do you have something you want to say to conclude what they're saying? >> i think many of us are already aware of this, but this is not simply a moral question, although it is a moral question.

it is really a strategic one. parties ands and political actors want to succeed, we are going to have to reckon with this in a serious way. it is not simply that those who control our political system should change it because it is the right thing to do, although that is also true, but if you want to engage the electorate that needs to vote for you, i think we need to start turning out a different kind of crop of candidates. this. kind of hinted at if you want the policy outcomes that many of us want, more progressive policies on a range of topics, this is one very clear path to getting it. >> thank you all so much. you were wonderful >> thank you for coming. [applause]

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