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White House press conference on Ebola

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White House to hold a press conference on Ebola "sometime in the next hour" per CNN
 
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Everything I can find says 3:30 eastern time.
 
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Another link for the briefing

OCTOBER 3, 2014
U.S. Response to Ebola
HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, Dr. Anthony Fauci with the NIH, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco brief reporters on the U.S. response to the global Ebola outbreak.


THIS PROGRAM HAS NOT YET AIRED

Airing LIVE Friday, Oct 03 4:30pm EDT on C-SPAN.org

Live at this link:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?321884-2/administration-briefing-us-response-ebola
 
Re: White House press conference on Ebola

Thanks everyone. Can someone makes some notes on this thread. I have to go out for awhile. I probably will not be back online by then. Thanks! :)
 
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This is a national security priority.
Whole government approach to fighting Ebola
Enhancing our domestic ability to respond to isolated cases in the US.
US has most capable health care infrastructure in the world
We are prepared to deal with crisis
Every outbreak over the last 40 years has been stopped. With America's leadership this will be stopped.
 
Re: White House press conference on Ebola

Have been working for many months to be prepared
Dallas public health is handling the case there
We have the systems in place to contain spread
People returning from ebola areas are to monitor themselves for symptoms upon return for 21 days
Working to develop new vaccines
 
Re: White House press conference on Ebola

Have experience dealing with ebola
Key is to identify, isolate, contact tracing, PPE
Monitor for 21 days
Africa difficult due to lack of infrastructure
Ebola is not transmitted through the air, only direct contact with body fluids and from body fluids on surfaces


In africa, we are making food,water, support more accessible
largest ever disaster response team in Africa
doubled diagnostic abilities
delivered 100,000+ PPE to homes
building ebola treatment units
on track for 2800 new beds
building island clinic in liberia
building 10-20 bed community bed units in rural areas
identify and deal with bodies (50+ safe burial teams)
more than 3/4 of bodies are being cleared within 24 hrs
 
Re: White House press conference on Ebola

Africa military command preventing potential risk to soldiers
training ebola treatment unit personnel
building units
helping with logistics
implementing procedures to minimize infections
screening returning military members
 
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symptomatic people have been stopped from getting on planes in africa
customs and border control people are trained to watch for symptoms
constantly evaluating measures to prevent disease entry


Question on ISIS latest execution of British citizen - US still evaluating authenticity of video

Learning lessons as we go, will incorporated new knowledge into responses
Howard Univ patient - symptoms are malarial, but it could be ebola
Shady Grove Adventist - potential ebola patient
If it doesn't spread like flu or cold why is it spreading so quickly? - Africa conditions very common to come into contact with bodily fluids
Africa infrastructure incapable of handling ebola
Public health alert system through CDC - potential patient notification goes through it.
Every hospital can isolate and follow up on ebola patients
Travel ban will impede response to africa, no travel ban planned
Military will take several weeks to build treatment centers
No military personnel treating people at this time, no plan at this time
Three US military labs set up in the area helping to identify positive patients


US preparedness has broken down at every turn, you say we have this great and perfect system but from the public view it's not working.
We have an expert infrastructure, Africa is the opposite, in texas, we have isolated, controlled contacts. This began in March and we have only had one case.


Lines of authority in health structure? Every test and result is reported to CDC.
Local levels controls the patient, CDC supports local authorities.

Is no one concerned about the breakdowns in the system?
We continually put out updated information, learning with every step.
CDC helped nigeria, we know what to do, we were successful there

Things did not go perfectly in dallas, but many things went right, contact tracing is going on, that is the important thing. It was rocky to the perception of the public, many missteps, but its working now.

Vaccine candidates in the works, in phase one of studies, phase two requires many people to get the vaccine, that will happen in africa in 2015

What concerns you most about this outbreak?
I'm convinced that the system in place will make it extraordinarily unlikely we will have an outbreak.

Why are we having this outbreak if we aren't concerned?
There is a lot of fear, it's the unknown, we are trying to get information out.

Who bears ultimate responsibility for the breakdown in Dallas? How are you preventing it from happening again?
We cannot over communicate in this issue, this is an execution game, there is no one that can help with execution as well as the military. We are disseminating as much info as quickly as possible.
 
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