so we are hampered as well. >> thank you. >> my name is michael osterholm. [laughter] and i often do that. i'm here at the school of medicine and i have a appointment at the bloomberg school as well. we are both practicing emergency physicians and so there's a certain reality where the rubber hits the road for us in regards to ebola. i'm here and probably my role is the office of critical event preparedness and an organization that has been given birth in 2003, managing the overall response of the institution including the health system and the university. >> hello, i'm a reporter here at "the washington post" and i have no expertise in this matter whatsoever. [laughter] i spent a lot of my time calling folks on this channel and asking them to explain this. i did go to monroeville for two weeks in september and saw virtually all of what the doctor spoke about and my assessment is that it's probably even worse than he described and i would be happy to get into that when you all want to ask questions. >> great. this is a tremendously talented panel with an unb

what is the president to be via infectious aerosol particles both at other near -- >> that's michael osterholm, we asked dr. fauci about that two weeks ago, and he said does it have the potential? but it doesn't do it right now. >> we're getting used to people declares scientific debates closed over and settled, they rarely are. >> back to politics. >>> juan, what stands out for you about this election two weeks out? >> well, i think it goes back to what the brilliant mr. human said. there's no way. look, everything is set up for the republicans to do very well here. this game is being played in red states. that's why you put up those poll numbers. in these states, these are red states, and republicans -- >> but those are the states the republicans are trying to flip. >> so they should be wiping the table. remember '06, '08, especially '10. >> but we weren't sure there was going to be a wave before. >> back to the 1800s, second-term presidents, mitt terms do terribly. >> and talking about george will's overstatement of certitude, we don't know. >> we do know there's no way at this point three

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we'll talk with chair of the oversight panel, tim murphy and infeshz disease special, michael osterholm. >>> if we do these protocols properly, the widespread of ebola in this country are very, very low. >> our sunday panel weighs in. then it's just 16 days till the midterm election with control of the senate still up for grabs. we'll have a debate between the chairs of both parties in their first joint appearance of 2014. it's a "fox news sunday" exclusive. our power player of the week, the man who keeps america on time. all right now on "fox news sunday." >> hello again from fox news in washington. under fire from republicans and some democrats, president obama is now scrambling to restore confidence in how his administration is handling the ebola threat. today we want to take a look at it from all angles. we'll talk with the government's point man on infectious disease, dr. anthony fauci and hear from two critics, congressman tim murphy and health expert dr dr. osterholm. we begin with john from atlanta. >> chris, good morning to you. this is the day the quarantine is scheduled to be

but michael osterholm, wrote this. we put it up on the screen. second pocket is one that virologists are loathe to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private. that an ebola virus could be transible through the air. there has been more human to human transfer in four months than likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. what he seems to be saying is ebola is already doing things we didn't think it could do. how solid is the science it won't be able to make this jump? >> i'm not loathe to discuss it publicly and i will discuss it with you. certainly hypothetically, anything can happen. but if you look at the track record of viruses, viruses mutate and they change. they can become more virulent, less virulent. it's not unprecedented a mutation will occur to completely make it transmitted by a way it never transmitted before. is it theoretically possible? yes. is it likely? no. >> finally, we got a little over a minute left. what do you to want say to our viewers -- i don't have to tell you. i'm sure you come in contact with a lot

in these conversations with today's speaker, michael osterholm has extolled us to do, we ask questions that the world is most afraid to ask. and we can create a scaffold to discipline an informed debate and we reckon with the answers no matter how daunting or complex or how unnerving they are. once again, this is a moment where they must be present and for hopkins, this is more than a professional obligation and it demands that we continue to deploy personal courage and grit that defines us. so for all of these reasons to be here today, your president and your engagement inspires optimism and i know that this will be a productive day and i think each of you for being part of the important work that lies ahead. i hope and trust that we will be able to do more to lead the our experts and energy to the african continent. so now i would like to turn the program over to the associate professor of molecular your biology at the bloomberg school of public health and research is focused on influenza but it's emerging research has led to research on other viruses including the enterovirus d-68 a

but they do provide this critical logistical and other support that was mentioned by doctor michael osterholm. and i think that there is a lot more to do in terms of generating the coordination necessary to get the resources going when they need to be there. >> i would agree with that and i think that we are in the process of will rebuilding the coordination approaches as the epidemic is ongoing and the aftermath is to re-look at how this is done. i think the coordination center is being set up in terms of command and control and we are a long ways down from a coherent approach. when the time comes we will have to look at how we do that. there's a lot of leadership both within countries and i think that this is a good one and a good example as well as undergoing the epidemic but i think that there will be a role for looking at new ways in which we can have preparedness and response to these kinds of epidemics in the coming years. >> last question and then we will go on. >> one thing is that the risk is controversial. i am absolutely convinced that this outbreak is the 9/11 of who. and that i

michael osterholm, director of research and policy at the university of oklahoma.le want to know, and it's a difficult question to answer, but what they really want to know is how bad is this likely to get? is the media exaggerating what is happening here, infections of one hospital in one city so far with health care workers? >> first of all, what happened in the united states is a minor player in the big global picture of this infection. it is unfortunate what's happened in dallas. the fact is, however, it has not spread through the community as we said it wouldn't. the concentration has to be on the health care workers. the other tale being missed is what's happening in west africa. that situation is becoming every day increasingly worse. it's becoming a situation seven or eight weeks ago we predicted would happen if we didn't respond. we have not responded as a global community. we talked about global response but have not responded. >> as far as we are concerned in this country, you don't believe from what you are saying it's going to spread to the general pop

in these conversations with today's speaker, michael osterholm has extolled us to do, we ask questionshat the world is most afraid to ask. and we can create a scaffold to discipline an informed debate and we reckon with the answers no matter how daunting or complex or how unnerving they are. once again, this is a moment where they must be present and for hopkins, this is more than a professional obligation and it demands that we continue to deploy personal courage and grit that defines us. so for all of these reasons to be here today, your president and your engagement inspires optimism and i know that this will be a productive day and i think each of you for being part of the important work that lies ahead. i hope and trust that we will be able to do more to lead the our experts and energy to the african continent. so now i would like to turn the program over to the associate professor of molecular your biology at the bloomberg school of public health and research is focused on influenza but it's emerging research has led to research on other viruses including the enterovirus d-68 and

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