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dr. anthony fouchi. the president underscored the steps we take must be guided by the best medical science as informed from our best medical health experts, and measures should be crafted so as not to discourage health workers from serving in west africa . governor cuomo's administration said that healthcare workers can be monitored at home. >> during that 21 days healthcare workers would check in on them twice a day. >> and u.s. ambassador to the united nations touched down in guinea in a five-day fact-finding mission on the ebola crisis. >> we need to be part of the solution and not runaway with something. it will come to us. >> the "world health organization" said it estimates there have been more than 10,000 cases since the outbreaks' beginning earlier this year. >> thousands are already dead of ebola in west africa. many thousands more will likely be dead before it's over. how to respond in the united states this time on the program. the center of disease control outlined a new set of guidelines for

dr. anthony fouchi, anthony banberry, he will come to us from africa, dr. gabe kellen, chair of emergency medicine at johns hopkins, sign journalist lori garrett and two senators. by the time, we're done, we hope to answer these questions. how big a threat is ebola to americans? can our healthcare system handle an outbreak? what will it take to eradicate ebola in africa? should there be a travel ban from affected countries? and are americans worried unnecessarily? let's start by looking at america's growing fears in a week that began with an unnerving announcement. sunday a nurse who cared for thomas eric duncan is diagnosed with ebola herself. nina pham is the first american to get ebola on american soil. >> the cdc is investigating. that's likely what happened. an inadvertent breech. >> monday her dog is moved to a naval base to be monitored. tuesday, the cdc says they're looking at every aspect of the procedures at texas presbyterian hospital. >> we know a single breach can cause an infection. >> wednesday, amber vincent, another nurse in dallas, becomes

dr. anthony fouchi chit sized the mandatory quarantine. listen. >> the best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in africa and we need those health care workers. we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to volunteer to go. >> the back and forth continues. >> it continues indeed, brian. so the nurse was there. what is governor cristy's response. he was in guinea and came back sick later. >> that's right. that's part of chris christie's point. he says i'm sorry for the inconvenien inconvenience. bottom line, the current cdc policy calling for voluntary quarantine is simply not strong enough. >> i don't believe when you're dealing with something as serious as this that we can count on a voluntary system. this is government's job. if anything else, the government's job is to protect the safety and health of our citizens. we have taken this action. i absolutely have no second thoughts about it. >> the new york times is just reporting that the obama administration is reportedly pressuring

dr. anthony fouchy is the director of institute of allergy and diseases. great to have you with us. we have seen a change in attitude it seems on the part of the administration now talking about screening and moving up what will be one assumes and we would like to hear from you, rules that will further assure the american public that they are the number one priority of our public health officials. >> well, what is going on now without any changes is watt we call exit screening. if someone goes to the airport in liberia and wants to get on the plane you are screened for temperature and you have a questionnaire to ask if you are feeling well or sick and if you have had known contact with someone suspected of or having ebola. that is really it. right now what i consideration and is actually being discussed is adding something, another layer on the incoming and of the arrival portion of the trip. so instead of having exit screening you are having inistry screening. that would likely consist of a number of things possibly retaking the temperature again to make sure it was taken correctly

dr. anthony fouchy, director of the national institute of infectious diseases. good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> what is the risk for those who are volunteering to take this vaccine? >> well, the vaccine that vaccine called vsv. it is a tenuated virus vaccine that has ebola components in it, and the risk is just a reaction that you might get from a virus vaccine it could be soreness on the arm. perhaps a low grade fever. and some achiness. we started a vaccine trial on september the 2nd of of a different candidate. this is the is second candidate now. so that we have two vaccines that are on their way, hopefully to be shown to be safe in these normal volunteers. and then ultimately we can expand the testing and determine if either or both of them work. >> now, i read that this vaccine is being tested now. the one that just started yesterday on humans here in the united states. that at 100% success rate in animals. i don't know if that's correct. but, if it is, does that necessarily mean that it's going to have 100% success rate in humans? >> not at all. and

dr. anthony fouchy a federal health official. >> what he is counting on is a voluntary system with folks may or may not comply. we had had this situation in new jersey, chris, as you know with the nbc news crew that said that they were going to self-quarantine and two days later they were out picking up takeout food in princeton and walking around the streets of princeton. the fact of the matter is that we, i don't believe, when you are dealing with something as serious as this that we can count on a voluntary system. >> illinois has also imposed a quarantine, all along with the state of florida. one american nurse, who was quarantined in new jersey has threatened to file a a lawsuit. meg begin kelly will deal with that in just a little while. the overall federal policy on ebola remains confused and ineffective. right now a a a-year-old boy in isolation at bellview hospital in new york city. he spent a month in the ebola region of guinea west africa. but he and his family were allowed to enter the u.s.a., go home to the bronx. the boy developed a fever. city officials say tonight they do

dr. anthony fouchy admitted her and will oversee her care while she is here. in terms of the course of treatment, we still don't have a lot of detail. he says they have to take a closer look at her, evaluate her, talk to her before they can figure out exactly what they're going to do here or whether or not they will use any experimental drugs. just a little too early to tell. back to you guys in the studio. >> megan, thanks. >>> we want to bring you facts about ebola, not fear. we have it all laid out for you at nbc 10. look for the special area there. >>> today in bucks county, former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords will be speaking about protecting women from gun violence. this is part of a roundtable discussion with state and local leaders in ben salem. focus on the need for laws to protect women and families from gun-related crimes. back in 2011 that giffords was shot in the head as she met with constituents outside of a grocery store. since then, she has been campaigning for responsible gun ownership. >>> also today, delaware county district attorney

dr. anthony fouchi, thanks for being with me. comparing ebola to aids, is that a fair and accurate comparison? >> well, i think that dr. frieden's comment may have been taken a little bit out of context. what dr. frieden was saying, is there are some similarities, but there are more dissimilarities between ebola and aids. some of the similarities is that both of us, dr. frieden and i, back in the early '80s dealing with hiv/aids, there was a similar fear and concern and panic about the unknown. that, certainly, is a similarity. the similarity also is that the explosion and the rate of the infection with hiv and with ebola is early on outstripping resources, but the similarities really end there, because if you look at the magnitude of aids globally, it just completely dwarves what's going on and what will ever go on with ebola. so we've got to make sure that we don't make that strict comparison between aids and ebola, because that would be misleading. >> and i think that's why his comments caught a lot of folks off guard. you said

dr. anthony fouchi. joining me now is raking democrat on the health subcommittee which has jurisdiction over both of the agencies. thank you for being with me. >> thank you, jose. >> when you look at what happening at home, what can congress do to stop this from becoming a full outbreak? >> i think our major concern is enough resources for the agencies like the cdc and the nih. also, to have oversight to make sure that those agencies are doing their job and communicating and are on the ground both on the united states as well as in africa. >> and do you think they're doing their job well? i mean, for what we're seeing coming out of texas? >> well, i think the answer is yes. of course, there have been some glitches initially when duncan went to the hospital in dallas, you know, because they didn't really know initially what they were dealing with. there were some problems. but i think those problems have been cleared up and now the protocols will be followed. but again, i think we have to make sure we hav

dr. anthony fouchy from the national institute of health said it was, quote, extraordinarily unlikely there would be an outbreak of the virus in the u.s. but he didn't say there would not be more cases of ebola. here is what he to say. >> and in your opinion, there is no significant outbreak in the u.s. >> the reason i said that. let me reiterate it. the reason there is an outbreak now because the health care infrastructure and system in those countries is in -- inadequate and uncapable of handling the kind of identification, isolation, rapid treatment, protection of the people who are coming into contact and contract tracing. that is something that we have very, very well established here. so we have a case now and it is entirely conceivable. there may be another case. but the reason that we feel confident is that our structure, our ability to do those things would preclude an outbreak. >> now the doctor went on to say the n.i.h. is testing a vaccine and it should come back and if successful, a larger trial could take place in africa next year. but officials are not considering that point

dr. anthony fouchie is here with us. thank you for being on with us. >> good morning. >> at the time duncan was arriving at the hospital, it is fair to say ebola is high. are you shocked he was sent home given his travel and temperature? >> there is no doubt it was a misstep to not connect the travel history he gave to the nurse with the decision of what to do with him. i think everybody realizes that it clearly was a misstep. >> moving forward, how confident are you with the hospitals now have heard this lesson loud and clear and we won't have this misstep again? >> i cannot guarantee you won't see it again, but the awareness is high. probably as high as anything i have ever experienced of people in emergency rooms and clinics being aware of something that might come in. i cannot imagine that if someone comes into an emergency room in any clinic in the united states with a fever and says, by the way, i just got back from west africa that they will not highly suspect and act on the possibility that this person has ebola.

dr. anthony fouchy at nih, the national institutes of health. doctor, what do you make?and understand what's going on. the fact that no one went into that apartment and got rid of the sheets and rid of the contaminated material, if you will, just allowed it to linger there while there were children and this woman that were living there, what do you make of that? >> well, obviously if that indeed happened, that should not have happened. so that needs to be corrected, not only for this particular situation here, but for any possible future situations. i don't know, wolf. i'm not familiar with why that happened and why the capability of being able to remove that was not implemented. so i can't comment on it except to say hopefully that gets corrected. >> how long can that virus, for example, be contagious if it's allowed to linger from the sweat let's say on a sheet or pillow case or towel? >> it's not a very hardy virus. it's pretty fragile. we do know from experience of people getting infected at funerals that a dead body, when you have materials such as body fluids still

dr. anthony fouchy, that you're still going to have the doctors, or the president decided he's going to be the calming voice. you wouldn't send ron klain to do that. that's not what he's expert at. and the plain fact is there is a fupgs in the government built in and it has been for a few decades, whose job it is to educate the public. it's called the surgeon general. >> interesting we don't seem to have one. i wished i lived in world where we had one. hold for me a second. we're going to take a break. but when we come back, i want to ask you, because what has happened as part of the panic in congress, is this question of whether or not we ought to shut off the flights, close the borders, keep the people out? let's have a travel ban. lock those people out. i want to talk to you about that as soon as we come back. my grandson's got this blankie that gets filthy. but he's got such sensitive skin that you worry about what you use in the laundry. so i use new tide pods free & gentle, to get a deep clean that's gentle on skin. new tide pods free & gentle. for over 19 million people. [ mom ] wit

dr. anthony fouchy said that it would be extraordinarily unlikely that there would be an outbreak here inhe did say there's still a chance, he thinks there could be another chance of a u.s. case of ebola in the coming days. but since there were no initiatives and no new measures being announced here by the white house, dr. fouchy was asked why this press conference was held in the first place. >> now that it's in the united states, the concern is that i don't ever like to see people suffer and die. but as a medical professional who has witnessed and experienced the whole 38 years since 1976, i never say i'm not concerned, because that's interpreted as taking something lightly. i take nothing lightly. but i'm convinced by what we have all said today that the system that's in place, with our health care infrastructure, would make it extraordinarily unlikely that we would have an outbreak. >> reporter: the other thing that dr. fouchy said during that news conference is an ebola vaccine is being tested over at the nih as we speak. they should have the first result from the first phase of that