complementing our emergencies and disasters, asper is responsible for services and coordinates assistance to supplement state and tribal resources and response to public health and medical care needs during emergencies. i would like to close with an overview of the recent emergency funding request from the administration. it includes 2.43 million dollars for hhs. barta's product development efforts and hpp's preparedness. funding will support development of an ebola vaccine and therapeutic candidates, clinical trials and commercial scale manufacturing. funding will ensure communities can purchase additional protective equipment that health care workers will receive additional training and patient detection, isolation and infection control. and we further build preparedness for the future by ensuring that all states have facilities that can handle an infectious disease as serious as ebola. mr. chairman and members of the committee, the top priority of my office is protecting the health of americans. i can assure you my team, the department, and our partners have been working and continue t

complementing our emergencies and disasters, asper is responsible for services and coordinates assistance to supplement state and tribal resources and response to public health and medical care needs during emergencies. i would like to close with an overview of the recent emergency funding request from the administration. it includes 2.43 million dollars for hhs. barta's product development efforts and hpp's preparedness. funding will support development of an ebola vaccine and therapeutic candidates, clinical trials and commercial scale manufacturing. funding will ensure communities can purchase additional protective equipment that health care workers will receive additional training and patient detection, isolation and infection control. and we further build preparedness for the future by ensuring that all states have facilities that can handle an infectious disease as serious as ebola. mr. chairman and members of the committee, the top priority of my office is protecting the health of americans. i can assure you my team, the department, and our partners have been working and continue t

the second was the creation of the asper, which was really about how do we put somebody in charge of the overall federal effort and the third thing was really how do we make the medical countermeasures we need? part of that was investing into nyad. tony fauchy, a spokesperson during this ebola crisis and a true scientific expert in these areas, but also, the idea of how do we build not only what they take from research and development but to a product we can stockpile and use. that was the function of the agency known as barton. i would argue that over the period of time these things have been developed, in some ways, we've kind of lost our eye on the ball. that between crisis, we seem to take for granted, if you will, things are being added or funded when in reality, those things have suffered significantly from that. but it is a circumstance we need to look forward to. after this crisis, we theed to be prepared for the next in a way that may be different than this one. we're fortunate this is not an airborne transmitted organism. certainly, it can evolve over time, but i don't thin

control generally, ebola and other deadly threats specifically working closely with the funding for asper and other parts of hospital preparedness. >> it seems to me that it shouldn't be partisan in any way for us to give a grant of money the president requested to deal with the terrible epidemic in africa. the request is quite balanced in helping us deal with the situation as we now have it. in past times we've always had bipartisan support. talking about here in the united states, what if we had a pandemic flu. that would certainly be a lot more dangerous because of how well -- how fast it would spread. would these funds help us to deal with that? secondly, are we prepared for a pandemic flu? do we have a stockpile of the medications. are we ready -- as you said we don't know what will come next. but if that happened, are we ready for it? >> we always work to be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than we are today. a pandemic of influenza remains one of the most concerning possibilities, the funding in the emergency funding request would assist this countr

there's funding within the emergency funding request both from cdc and from asper to support such facilities. >> the question is just to clarify, would that be part of the president's requested dollars? >> yes, it is. >> doctor? >> e yes, it is. >> very good. and again, dr. frieden and dr. laurie, one of the experiences here is that we know that, let's see umc has 11 units but the reality is they could only have three patients at a time because all the collateral circumstances. so do we need more biocontainment units like what emory has, dr. frieden? >> we think we need some increase in the number of facilities that can safely care for someone with ebola or another deadly infection. we have been working closely with hospitals throughout the country to increase that capacity and the emergency funding request would enable us to get to the level where we would have a greater degree of comfort with the facilities out there in the kmaft. >> just to clarify that some of the dollars that would be in the emergency funding, the president's request would be to expand the number of biocontainment units

there's funding within the emergency funding request both from cdc and from asper to support such facilities. >> the question is just to clarify, would that be part of the president's requested dollars? >> yes, it is. >> doctor? >> e yes, it is. >> very good. and again, dr. frieden and dr. laurie, one of the experiences here is that we know that, let's see umc has 11 units but the reality is they could only have three patients at a time because all the collateral circumstances. so do we need more biocontainment units like what emory has, dr. frieden? >> we think we need some increase in the number of facilities that can safely care for someone with ebola or another deadly infection. we have been working closely with hospitals throughout the country to increase that capacity and the emergency funding request would enable us to get to the level where we would have a greater degree of comfort with the facilities out there in the kmaft. >> just to clarify that some of the dollars that would be in the emergency funding, the president's request would be to expand the number of biocontainment units

>> we are working with emory with the cdc and asper standing up on educational protocols and visiting other institutions across the united states to help them enhance their readiness, hosting teams from other discussions across the united states. in nebraska we recently had a team of 9 or 10 people from joh johns hopkins unit. as well as a series of protocols used for certification of readiness and maintenance of readiness. >> when you say you advised the administration, have you spoken with mr. klein, the ebola czar? >> yes, several times. >> did the administration, did they incorporate your recommendations and did they reject any of your recommendations? >> we're working specifically with dr. lurie, who was your guest here a little bit earlier. we speak probably daily on the development of these protocols. there's a conference call scheduled for friday. >> you feel they are accepting your recommendations? >> thus for a, yes. >> good. >> thus far, yes. >> and dr. isaac, in your testimony, you talked about people in planes being checked temperature-wise every so often. what did you sa

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