the product is at the n.i.h. then it will be a few months to get the human data that will allow us to pick -- fouad -- to stop it right away. president trump: over the next few months you think you'd have a vaccine? >> correct. phase two. president trump: you won't have a vaccine, you'll have a vaccine -- [indiscernible] -- [talking simultaneously] president trump: how long would that take? >> phase two will take a few months before going to phase three. president trump: you're talking within about a year. talking simultaneously] [indiscernible] >> we will be there in june. president trump: in a couple of months. right. i like the sound of a couple of months better. >> phase one initiation in june, not a completed vaccine. >> it would be a vaccine ready for testing in phase one. [talking simultaneously] president trump: ready to use when? >> assuming that the vaccine is well tolerated -- [indiscernible] -- i think the question is how do we work with the f.d.a. to expedite that as fast as possible. some sort of fa

so the n.i.h. and c.d.c., they need to occupy a special place when it comes to budgeting by the federal government. the second thing that we note is there are practical questions to be asked and answered. we're now talking about the development of a test to determine whether individuals have been infected by the coronavirus. that test is now starting to come forward. it will be released in states across the united states in the next several weeks. some obvious, practical questions face us. how much does this test cost? is it covered by health insurance? if not covered by health insurance, can the average family afford it? these are practical questions which those of us who have good health insurance and are not worried about the next paycheck can take care of. but for millions of americans, it's a significant challenge. and we noticed that in some cases, it takes more than one test to determine that a person is truly free of the coronavirus. so the obvious question is, does our health insurance cov

and the n.i.h. he refused to fill key public health positions. most importantly, this is just unbelievable when you think about it and i know senator young, the presiding officer, had concerns about that. he got rid of the white house's entire global health security team two years ago. let me repeat that. for two years president trump left us without the team that's supposed to manage pandemics. now, you know what that means? it means -- there were about 40 people at the white house led by an admiral who is an m.d. and also a doctor. his job was to survey the world and look around for potential illness outbreaks, to look around for potential pandemics. it might have been sars. it might have been ebola. it might be resurge ens of -- resurgece of polio. we do this. we care about the world. protect our own people. if we don't, we see what happens. his job was to continue to look rn a the world and look -- around the world and look out for these kind of pandemics. the president fired him. the president fired the whole office. the president has never

and who pays for the research at the national institutes of health, at n.i.h.? well, the taxpayer, to the tune of about $40 billion a year. so it makes no sense at all for the taxpayers who made this big investment in research and development of a drug to then be price-gouged by the pharmaceutical companies that take the benefits of that good work and then add a big, big price tag. and so our proposal would make sure that where you have that kind of public investment in research and development, you essentially have a process to make sure that there's a reasonable price. and ultimately when it comes to a public health vaccine, we need to make sure it is available to everybody and that nobody cannot afford that. second, as our schools have been shut in many states, we're seeing the results of the digital divide. just one piece of that the. because there are a lot of students, a lot of students who don't have access to the internet. and, therefore, they're not going to be able to engage in distance learning, if this crisis continues and schools decide to expand di

we've also been engaged in some of the early vaccine work with the n.i.h. and the n.i.h.ing and testing not only the rna-based vaccine,s, but the recombinant based vaccines. part of that is because we developed the first animal models for many of these emerging coronaviruses and so we were well positioned to contribute to global efforts. >> i want to give ann a chance to weigh in as well. >> i think that what ralph barak is saying who is one of the leaders in coronavirus research here in the world is key. his lab has been funded to be able to do this work. and it's so important to have n.i.h. and other funding to be able to do this kind of science so that when there is an emergency, that this can ramp up quickly and keep moving forward. you know, in general, funding has not been robust for science in general in the past several years, and so we're seeing the results of that. we're just very lucky that dr. barak has had so much ability, so much funding and so much work on this for so long that he can move as quickly as he can. i've known him for a while, and i, i am very,

anthony fauci of the n.i.h. today. he said the coronavirus outbreak is only going to get worse. >> the flu has a mortality of 0.1%. this has a mortality of 10 times that, and that's the reason why i want to emphasize we have to stay ahead of the game in preventing this. >> reporter: this, as institutions nationwide took unprecedented steps. more than 200 colleges and universities are canceling in- person classes. the n.c.a.a. announced its basketball tournament will be played without fans. and the biggest st. patrick's day parade in the u.s. was canceled, which attracts an estimated two million people. >> our testing capacity is nowhere near what it needs to be. >> reporter: in the face of a serious outbreak in suburban new york, governor andrew cuomo said his state is expediting coronavirus testing and will begin contracting private labs. >> why would you risk bringing thousands of people together, knowing that this is a virus that easily communicates? >> reporter: are you nervous about the coronavirus shutting school

also, n.i.h. and also the vice a briefing as us well as the democrats. we had another briefing today. more about ore and this virus every single -- we learn more and more about this day. every single the problem is china being very closed. not open from the beginning. allowing our scientists or researchers or doctors in from the beginning. now we're able to discover more about it.more i -- i'm sorry. the democrats, this is a turning page for them, hat they could put politics aside. focus together putting the american public first. floor t watched on the that we just won the sixth recommit, but there's a real underlying message about won this motion to recommit. socialist winghe of the democratic party controls the floor. democratic member, congresswoman underwood, had the amendment and wanted to offer it. by leadershipback because the socialist wing of the party did not want to have forward on nt go this bill. we think all ideas should be and to move on the floor, we think the power of the idea win.d be able to if you watch when it was offered, overwhelm

needed.t they number three, we had to get our scientists and experts, we have in the world, the c.d.c., n.i.h., to the to the hot zone in china. that was delayed, not because we didn't want to get there, but would not allow us direct access. and number four, we had to be with the public. we had to let people know the occurring.ey were well, fast forward, you know, the first go, i held hearing in my first subcommittee hearing on the asia-pacific. focused on the first step -- containment. it was evident at that hearing public health experts we had that you really can't contain this novel coronavirus, as co-individual -- covid-19. likely be seeing ommunity events and community spreading. that was pretty evident. we lost time. that china tried to contain things gave us a little we of time, but the fact didn't develop a test, we didn't ut things in place really set us behind the 8-ball. the first case in sacramento county. hat patient was moved to uc-davis, my home facility, and based on that we changed the testing criteria. have enough tests out there but we changed the criteria to allow the heal

teaming up with the n.i.h. moderna started trials in seattle where the north america outbreak took hold. 45 healthy volunteers will receive injections over six weeks and be monitored for a year to see if the vaccine is safe. moderna started work on the vaccine as soon as china posted the genetic virus sequence online. >>> how long did it take you to go from getting this genetic information to actually having a vaccine ready for human trial? >> 25 days. it was released to the clinic d the world indoor record. but it's definitely faster than we think anybody's done before. >> reporter: moderna's process pushes the envelope of biotechnology. its scientists manipulate the genetic code to instruct cells what to do. in this case, trigger the body's immune system to fight the new coronavirus. >> once you realize that you can essentially put a software-like program into a cell, the opportunities to address human disease are pretty broad. >> reporter: how did your relatively small biotech get to be the first one to go i

we have to fast track clinical trials within n.i.h. while closely coordinating with the f.d.a., the food and drug administration, on trial approvals. so that science is not hindered by the bureaucracy. and when a vaccine is ready to go, it should also be made widely available, and again, free of charge. we should also immediately restore the white house national security council directorate for global health security and biodefense. with a full-time dedicated coordinator to oversee that response. our administration, our last administration, we created that office to better respond to future global threats after the ebola crisis of 2014. it was designed for exactly this scenario. but for some reason, i still don't understand, president trump eliminated that office two years ago. look, here's the bottom line. we have to do what's necessary to beat the challenge, beat this challenge sooner rather than later. we will beat it. i assure you, if we wait for it to worsen, then scramble to catch up, the human and economic toll will grow faster,

and n.i.h. those are the individuals that are helping lead in this process. you had a 40% increase. just in 2019, under this administration and our majority, we created the infectious disease rapid response fund. so they could actually go after dealing with this at the very beginning. and then we have the national stockpile. so we have been preparing for a situation such as this. unfortunately, when this first came to the fruition that president xi did not allow us in there. if our scientists, doctors were able to be in china from the very beginning, we'd have more nowledge and we would probably have helped save the world, containment could have been within their country. right now it's a different situation. so we will do everything in our-- on our part working with the private sector making sure we have facilities we need. the other thing, too, from a responsibility from all americans, not to panic, but don't horde it as well. let's make sure those who need it, just like when it comes to a mask situation, you watched a run on mask. here we have two different masks. one is an indus

and ists at n.i.h. working on a vaccine to pandemic.19 i pray and i hope that -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. neguse: let's pass this bill today. let's get it done. let's meet this moment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. speaker.: yes, mr. i'm proud to yield one minute to the gentleman from kansas, mr. marshall. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kansas is minute.ed for one mr. marshall: i thank the gentleman for yielding. ast sunday, the senate announced a bipartisan framework to help individuals and small the chinese rough coronavirus crises. fray.politics entered the in the five days that followed, coronavirus cost hundreds of lives.ns their over 40,000 infections have occurred and millions of jobs have been lost. goodness, cooler, more pragmatic heads have now prevailed. want to thank our president for his leadership, for halting travel from china, and i want to thank the president for reaching to private enterprise to solve

what n.i.h. is able to do now in six weeks, which normally would have taken them 12 months or more so innovation has to drive and if we lose innovation, we're going to lose our ability to maintain the advances we have in clinical medicine, for antibiotic resistance. they're going to go aside. mr. harris: sure much we made that point when h.r. 3 was being considered and even the c.b.o. agreed that there were probably a dozen diseases that we would not be able to develop treatments for if we punish innovators in this country. let me talk about one last -- and bring it around back to the testing issue. because one thing that you said and i'm curious about this, just from a public health perspective, is that qwest and labcorp now are geared up to do this. could they have geared up sooner? i mean, because you imply that we have to have a parallel track. we have to have this one system that is for public health bodies and then this other system for the private sector which it sounds like was ready to g

the president has put the c.d.c., n.i.h. in meetings from the very beginning and the military as early back as january. you have watched the president's administration come to this capitol early january to prep and brief the entire congress and senate about the door roana virus -- coronavirus and what was coming. unfortunately you didn't hear about it or read about it because at that moment in time the majority party was spending their time impeaching the president. i disagree with the basis of your question. he knows this is contagious. he knows because he's taken the actions. he knows what he's been doing with the administration and others. how serious this was. he was warning us prior to anybody that was paying attention. reporter: not as serious as the flu? mr. mccarthy: it is more serious as the flu. not from a sars, more tality rate not as high but much more contagious. otherwise the president would not have taken the action of declining flights coming into america as early as did he when others would criticize him for

the first one was a supplemental that you made sure you got resources at n.i.h. and c.d.c. the extra they needed. the next bill went into making sure the worker and testing was paid for, to have their health. those are just now being implemented. now you have more than $2 trillion going into the economy to the areas that we know are needed and you're sitting here talking about needing another bill. let's -- if these bills are done correctly, let them put them to work to get through this. if something is needed in the future, let's make that decision. but let's not make that decision without allowing these bills to be put into the economy. yes? reporter: might be too early to talk about this, but do you envision this experience triggering any permanent changes in the house? for example, remote voting, maybe continuing social distancing even when things calm down? mr. mccarthy: only time will tell. hopefully through this, we'll learn to wash our hands more. the flu season will be less maybe because of that, but i hope that one thing we'll seriously look at as a congress, the

anthony fauci is th director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases at n.i.h., that is where he joins us from this morning. dr. fauci, thank you for making time for us. >> good to be with you. >> brennan: you just heard that report from our liz palmer about italy. are we on the same trajectory as italy? >> not necessarily at all. i mean, obviously, things are unpredictable. you can't make any definitive statement, but if you look at the dynamics of the outbreak in italy, we don't know why they lity-- and manyo terribly, but of us believe-- that early on, they did not shut out as weliont originated in china and came to different parts of the world. one of the things that we did very early and very aggressively, the president, you know, put the travel restriction coming from china to the united states, and most recently, from europe to the united states. because europe is really the new china. again, i don't know why this is happening there to such an extent. but it is conceivable that once you get so many of these spreads out, they spread exponentially and you ca

>> the reason is i had some really important stuff i needed to do back at the n.i.h.s my real original day job. also they want to just get different perspectives up there. i'll be on tomorrow. i'm told i'm going to be at the press conference tomorrow. but you're right, a lot of people were concerned, a, that i'm sick, that i died, or that the president is mad -- is angry with me. none of the above. i'm fine and i'll be back. i just had some important work regarding the vaccine and the drug situation that i really needed to be physically present with my team at the n.i.h., which have important things to do, and it kind of conflicted with when the press conference was. it was really a very innocent thing. i'll be back tomorrow. >> i want to get to our viewer questions. this is sent in from facebook from sarah peterson. she asked why isn't the president practicing social distancing in the white house and during briefings? shouldn't they be leading by example? you are kind of crowded on the podium. >> you know, it's a very important point and it's really related, anderson

n.i.h.'s dr.hony fauci: >> it probably would be several weeks, and maybe longer, before we know whether we're having an effect. >> reporter: and we just got this breaking news: n.b.a. star kevin durant just announced he has tested positive for coronavirus. he is on self-quarantine, but says he's doing fine. just another example no one is immune from the virus, and the importance of slowing down the spread. norah. jamie.nnell: so true, jamie. than thank you. and tonight, with hospitals warning they're not prepared for an impending crisis, the department of defense is donating five million surgical masks and 2,000 ventilators. the military is also using its labs to help process civilian test kits. and today, vice president mike pence called on the construction industry to donate more face masks. mola lenghi is outside a hospital in new york city. mola? >> reporter: well, norah, it's doctors, nurses, techs who are on the front lines in the battle against this virus in hospitals and nursing facilities

i'm pleased that n.i.h. is getting the moneys that they need in order to do the work. we know that we're not going to have a vaccine in time this year, but we want to make sure we get it as soon as possible and it's on a fast track and these funds will help us develop that vaccine for the future needs of controlling this type of a virus. but in the meantime, we're also putting resources into therapeutic drugs, drugs that can help people that are sick today. those drugs are not yet available, but we want to make sure we do everything we can to make them available as soon as possible. fema has been bumped up substantially in this bill for good reason. the federal emergency management agency. and that brings me to the point that is a major improvement that's been brought in this legislation to help our state and local governments. they're the front lines of providing these public health needs and we need to provide them the resources they need. so fema needs to be properly appropriated and we had the money in here to help fema, but we also need direct help to our local go

the president will be meeting with pharmaceutical companies tomorrow, and also will be visiting the n.i.h. headquarters tuesday. meanwhile, the vice president announcing he's added the head of the fda and hud secretary ben carson to the covid-19 task force. carson has been a medical doctor for most of his career. tom? >> kyra, thank you for that. >>> as we continue, politics tonight. abc news learning pete buttigieg is expected to suspend his campaign, ending his race for president. for biden, south carolina, beating bernie sanders by nearly 30 points. trailing him just in the delegate count. the question, can he carry that momentum into super tuesday, just 48 hours from now? here's rachel scott. >> thank you, south carolina! >> reporter: tonight, joe biden riding high after his huge south carolina victory. >> we just won, and we won big, because of you! >> reporter: hoping to challenge delegate leader senator bernie sanders on super tuesday, just 48 hours away. >> most americans don't want the promise of revolution. they want more than promises. they want results. >> reporter: but biden

anthony fauci, the director of the nional institutof allergand infeious diseases at the n.i.h., had a message for those vulnerable to se complications, particularly elderly people with underlying alth conditions: >> right now, not wait until ings get worse-- say no large crowds, no long trips. and above all, don't get on a cruise ship. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile secretary of housing and urban development dr. ben carson did not state any concrete plans from the federal government on what to with the people on board. >> the ship is docking tomorrow. e. the plan wi be in place by that t but i don't wa to preview the plan right now. >> sreenivasan: for more now on the situation in italy, newshour weekend special correspondent christopher livesay joins us via test test you were just traveling here before these quarantines went into place. what is it like out there? >> well, italians are extremely nervous. you had this announcetment t came through on officials channels, there was a government de cree that went in toimit travel. however that was leaked to the italian press before it ppwas ed

anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases at n.i.h., warned that the country needs to stay ahead ofe sease even if it seems like an over-reaction at this stage. >> americans should be prepared that they'reoing to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing. tohink that right now everything's going to be okay if you don't do anything, that's absolutely incorrect. .e've got to really always be ahead of the cur i say now in a way i thinker people uand, i'd like to be criticized for being over- reactive. >> sreenivasan: as of sunday afternoon, there are nearly u.s. and 57 deaths from covid- 19, according to johns hopkins university's coronavirus resource center. in italy today, pope fncis offered prayers to the sick and to health care workers battling the coronavirus by video. his remarks came as the vatica announced that holy week will move forward as planned-- but the public will only bable to follow the ceremonies via television, radio and online media. st. peter's square and the basilica remain closed to tourists. ita

anthony fauci of the n.i.h.ys we're even failing toget people properly tested. >> the idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that. do i think we should be? yes, but we're not. >> reporter: so far only 11,000 tests have been done in this country while south korea is california00 a day. the entire state of california has just 8,000 tests for nearly 40 million people. some don't even work. >> the tests are not complete. >> reporter: one person who did get tested took a jetblue flight to palm beach international. flight attendants found out during the descent that the passenger learned he had tested positive. here in new rochelle, the epicenter of the state's outbreak, a one-mile containment zone went into effect today, leading to empty streets. the national guard is helping clean public spaces and deliver food to hundreds of families. the containment area here will last until march 25th. now, governors in florida, rhode island, and washington have also

and who pays for the research at the national institutes of health, at n.i.h.? well, the taxpayer, to the tune of about $40 billion a year. so it makes no sense at all for the taxpayers who made this big investment in research and development of a drug to then be price-gouged by the pharmaceutical companies that take the benefits of that good work and then add a big, big price tag. and so our proposal would make sure that where you have that kind of public investment in research and development, you essentially have a process to make sure that there's a reasonable price. and ultimately when it comes to a public health vaccine, we need to make sure it is available to everybody and that nobody cannot afford that. second, as our schools have been shut in many states, we're seeing the results of the digital divide. just one piece of that the. because there are a lot of students, a lot of students who don't have access to the internet. and, therefore, they're not going to be able to engage in distance learning, if this crisis continues and schools decide to expand di

needed.t they number three, we had to get our scientists and experts, we have in the world, the c.d.c., n.i.h., to the to the hot zone in china. that was delayed, not because we didn't want to get there, but would not allow us direct access. and number four, we had to be with the public. we had to let people know the occurring.ey were well, fast forward, you know, the first go, i held hearing in my first subcommittee hearing on the asia-pacific. focused on the first step -- containment. it was evident at that hearing public health experts we had that you really can't contain this novel coronavirus, as co-individual -- covid-19. likely be seeing ommunity events and community spreading. that was pretty evident. we lost time. that china tried to contain things gave us a little we of time, but the fact didn't develop a test, we didn't ut things in place really set us behind the 8-ball. the first case in sacramento county. hat patient was moved to uc-davis, my home facility, and based on that we changed the testing criteria. have enough tests out there but we changed the criteria to allow the heal

and n.i.h. in progress have research going on on a vaccine and has been ongoing. i believe clinical trials for that will not be for another few months. in terms of a final determined f.d.a.-approved vaccine, we are looking to 16 to 24 months. that is the research we are doing. i can't speak to what c.d.c. and n.i.h. are doing on ta. we may be closer there in terms of having something that can be usable. it is in clinical trials for testing of efficacy. mr. cuellar: i ask you, i know we are putting federal dollars and research and i understand that, in different areas. i want to make sure we are coordinated working together as we use this large amount of federal dollars and you saw the house passed the supplemental bill yesterday. i want to make sure we are all coordinating. ms. mccollum: mr. womack. mr. womack: thanks to the entire panel. i direct my question to the general and the admiral. i'm going to pivot away from all these flavors of the month, covid-19, et cetera, et cetera. and i want to come back to tactical medicine. it is my strong belief that in the la

anthony fauci at n.i.h., the head of the infectious diseases program.ys he expects a year to a year and a half. others are saying we have aready to go vaccine. the vaccination ready to go, the p. hch -- the w.h.o. designation makes it possible to expedite. you know one of the great political issues will be when we are looking back on what was decided they will be asking did we do everything we can as quickly as we can if we have god forbid a huge number of fatalities? >> i saw the doctor on fox news saying do we have enough hospital beds and ventilators? lou: do you think we do? >> no. lou: they are not dealing with a problem if they are not solving the problem. >> long term you want to make sure the vaccine is effective. here is my argument. it's hard not to panic. our arguments ought to be we are a can-do population. we mobilize we get things done. give us our marching orders. one sheet on your desk, a one-sheet primer on things to do. lou: this sheet is up @loudobbs on twitter and available to you. and it will be on instagram and facebook. >> do thos

down at the n.i.h. and the cdc.his is the place of how we should treat this with the leadership and get it done. we should have had it done last week but the democrats held up the supplemental so they could run ads against the republicans. judge jeanine: when chuck schumer criticized two supreme court justices, put there by donald trump, gorsuch as well as kavanaugh, basically threatening them with violence, you will pay the price, you won't know what hit you. should he be impeached, chuck schumer, minority leader in the senate? >> if this was a republican going to the supreme court intimidating individuals. america is supposed to be an exchange of ideas. to intimidate them and incite violence against them, i think it republicans should change their leadership. do they support what he's saying? i would stands up against this if i was a democrat. i think the same thing should happen here. what the democrats are doing. they didn't like the president so they impeached him. he doesn't like what's happening in the court

. >> congressman cole, there have been cutbacks in some n.i.h. programs that democrats have been concerned about. but let's focus on this funding. >> actually there haven't been cutbacks. there have been continuous increases. look, i was the chairman there for four years. we increased it every single year. we did it again this year. cutting particular programs or whatever, yeah, but the reality is, this is the most substantial sustained increase in over 15 years. it is over a five-year period. >> do you expect a vote next week on a funding mechanism, $6 billion to $8 billion, perhaps? >> it's too early for me to be talking about that. i think it will be substantial. i don't know if it will be as soon as next week. but the message has been given to the appropriate people responding, our medical professionals, look -- you should do everything you need to do. don't let lack of money stop you. the money should be there. come and ask us for what you need when you need it. i think there will be an initial response. but as the chairman said, this is a n

the first clinical grade batch of this drug was shipped to the n.i.h. for a phase one clinical trial in late 2019 and the clinical trials have begun. in my written testimony i list three other small companies that are developing coronavirus and there are 40 other ones developing vaccines. so how can the congress help these small biotech companies develop the vaccine? the key is knowing that the small business will get paid for developing the vaccine. congress can guarantee the purchase of a certain volume of vaccine at a price or giving advanced market commitments to purchase safe and effective products. in my written testimony, i also discuss some other ways the congress could help the small businesses provide services to direct -- to address the coronavirus epidemic. small business can provide telehealth services to people in quarantine and in rural communities. people in quarantine need to discuss their health condition with medical professionals without subjecting the clinician or the public to the disease. medicare now pays for telehealth but most