That are compassionate and supportive of working americans. As well as businesses that could be adversely affected by the spread of the coronavirus. The president noted the president s nationwide response has received high praise, even from democratic governors, including gavin newsom. Every single thing he said they followed through on. So im not interested in finding daylight on those statements because every single thing his administration it starts at the top, including the Vice President has been consistent with the expectation that we repatriate the passengers and do it in a way that does justice to the spirit that defines the best of our country and the state of california. Lou here is President Trump obviously pleased with the work his Coronavirus Task force is making and the nationwide response. President trump i think the people are doing a fantastic job. Gavin newsom in california said tremendous an article came out and i showed hip other articles where democrat governors are saying we have done a fantastic job. Gavin newsom said there wasnt a thing he asked for that we werent able to get him. Hes a critical guy, wele all are. But it was a positive statement. Many democratic governments have said what we have done has been terrific. Lou the president promising the American People that costs will not be an issue when confronting the wuhan virus. The president proposing a payroll thanks cut. Wage relief for parttime workers. , loans for Small Businesses and covering the expenses of uninsured patients who contract the coronavirus. When comparing the wuhan virus with the flu President Trump right now we are at 26 deaths. If you look at the flu for this year, we are looking at 8,000 deaths. And you know, hundreds of thousands of cases, 8,000 versus 26,000 at this time. With all that being said we are taking this unbelievably seriously and i think we are doing a god job. The Task Force Head up by the Vice President has been fantastic. Lou the next guest claims his company is creating a coronavirus vaccine. Joining us is john price, the president and ceo of graphics, a genetic engineering firm. The president is pleads with the way his administration and the u. S. Government is responding. I think the American People are as well. But the left continue to make politics an issue and they look frankly to me like fools for doing so. We have 28 people in this country who died of the coronavirus and 19 of them were at a nursing home in kirkland, washington. This seems to be a wellcontrolled response to this virus. It is. Its difficult when there is a death. Any death. So you have to make sure that people are essentially assured themselves that there is nothing to be fearful about. But whether its a numeric challenge or a madeup challenge. We want to be respectful of whats going on. Lou we are very respectful in this broadcast. This is not a nation of daffodils or butter cups. We are a nation first and we are by heritage and by nature, men and women of some considerable character, stamina and strength and well be treated as adults, simply put. I think the president has done a masterful job of communicating that way with great compassion to the degrees he is now opening up the coffers of the federal government to assure all communities, all groups, all identities will be served, especially the most vulnerable. I came back from vietnam two weeks ago. My experience is people are incredibly impressed with the way americans look at Something Like this. Its something that they admire greatly. Lou one of the things everyone in the world admires greatly is our innovation, entrepreneurship, science and medical research, and you are at the forefront of that. Your firm and others like it are working very hard to create vaccines and antivirals to deal with this crisis. Give us a sense of how close you are to having a vaccine that you have confidence in to move forward and to do so address ideally. You i have great confidence. One of the things i do when i walk through our laboratories, i ask the question, does this work . The answer is yes. Then the question cops how fast and how far can you go . And that is two part. One, the way vaccines are tested is out of the control of a company like ours. Its government. So what you do is create a vaccine candidate, no different than anyone else. You test that first in small animals. Lou no difference in the process. But decided difference in the technology. By the way, we all think we have the best vaccine. We know we do. And others think the say way. And the other good news is it would be great if all of them had the right vaccine because there will never be enough vaccines. Lou you think there wont be enough vaccines for the coronavirus or enough for the viruses well encounter in the future. I think there wont be enough vaccines. It has to do with how we prepare in the future and how we are experiencing the diseases we see today. When you think about it, the flu changes itselfer year. And thats why the flu vaccine is done. Lou its clear we missed in part because of the mu takes in the four strands. Correct. And i think it will always be that way. We are working on a universal flu vaccine. But i think the more important question into the coronavirus, thats the one people want to know about. To me the next question is whats it going to look like next year, and how are we prepared for that. Lou the American Public is focused clearly on this edition of the coronavirus. And its frustrating im sure for to figure it will for many to figure it will take a year, year and a half to create that vaccine. Your process is with a socalled dead virus rather than live virus . Its an antiviral virus that has been emptied, then you put a sequence of a again that you season of a gene that you synthesize. Lou i talked to a number of people who think there is Great Potential for the methodology you are using and the train you are on because of the you will e groups in society who could not with stands a live virus or other types of technology in the vaccine. Your approach may offer the best hope for pregnant women, who are abled, who are infirm, who are aged, who are infirm, compromised immune systems. The virus most deadly for those groups. We think we have a safe vaccine. We believe the methodology allows us the oldfashioned business side, cheaper, faster and better. We know we are better and we know we are faster and we worked on cheaper. It meets the needs of the community at large. Lou its exciting to hear this. And the reality we know the fda and the trials that await you, any Life Science Company involved in this enterprise. We want you alto speed up as fast as you can. What is necessary to move this product forward at the fastest possible rate. The president has made it clear. He wants to see things moved very quickly in terms of drugs, in terms of far suit cal in terms of pharmaceuticals to a necessary toserve population. Always money and always people. So whats necessary to move it forward. The 8. 3 billion bill that was signed last week that was signed by kevin brady lou bipartisan. Absolutely. The money gets distributed and that will be whats interesting next. Lou talking with Anthony Fauci of the nih, the head of Infectious Diseases, he talked about a year to a year and a half. You have talked about accelerating that. What is the predicate for doing that . The desire to have a vaccine with a stake in the ground that says we need to have it this is the day we want it. Lou we talked to the department of health and Human Services. There was a declaration, if we can put this up. The declaration by alex azar, the health and Human Services secretary, this u. S. Public Health Emergency declared on january 31 follows the World Health Organization that the spread of the virus constituted a public Health Emergency of international concern. The w the w. H. O. Is the organization to issue a pandemic declaration. The president could do so with such a declaration, could he not . I believe so. On your news show an individual came out and said i view this as a pandemic. So the issue is the president says its a pandemic, its a pandemic. Lou there is nothing i can see that would disqualify it. We are in 108 countries at last reading. 60 are reare covering, thank god. Thats necessary you think to move forward to get special access to money and new deadlines for clinical trials. I would say the latter. New deadlines. If you declare it a pandemic and say well change how we introduce the clinical trials, if we change the subject count and the length of time, a lot of these things can change the delivery day. Lou by how much . Conservative, six months. Lou 6 months could help a lot of folks . Sure. Lou we appreciate you being here. We wish you a lot of luck. Indeed people around the world. And the company is greffex, genetic engineering, john price is the ceo. Congress looking set to pass a fisa reform bill. But now there is a question. There have been no reforms. The president said he wants reform before there is reauthorization. Because he doesnt want to see spygate for any president again. We take it up with a man in the room. Congressman andy biggs. The man in the room for those discussions. Coronavirus reality. Is it different than perception . The our next guest says so and we ask him why. 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Mark rupp, hes the director Infectious Diseases at the university of nebraska medical center. If you would update us on how many patients you have there now. At one point you had 15, and i wanted to get a sense of how their recovery is going. We are doing well. We successfully discharged some of the patients from the quarantine unit. We have one of those patients in the bio containment unit that came from tour Community Related to travel. So we are starting to see some cases within the Community Related to travel and close contact with that patient. But our experience is mir yoorg what we have seen throughout the country. Lou with testing, there is confusion about how many tests have been put out and its sort of inexplicable to me that there has been in some cases apparently hundreds of thousands of test kits sent out but without a way in which to report whether those test kits have been used and whether the results are positive or negative. First of all, we welcome the increased amount of resources coming to bear on this. The announcement of billions of dollars coming out from the federal government. That should help with the developing vaccine you just talked about with your last guest. Developing medication, stockpiling personal protect youive equipment. So getting the tests available more widely. There is a disconnect between the pronouncements saying there are millions of tests out there. Those of us who have our boots on the ground and having to try order tests through the community, that continues to be difficult and ponderous. There is a fair amount of bureaucracy. Its not as streamlined as it should be. Once the cdc or fda cakes their hands off the control of those tests and sends them out to private or commercial labs, it makes it difficult to maintain that reporting scheme. Thats where your comments how can we send these out there, we dont know how many tests have been done or what the results are. It takes a lot of effort to have the mechanisms in place to get the results back. It needs to be a reportable disease and Public Health needs to know those, which we do. Well know the positive cases, but we may not know the total number of cases and tests being performed. Lou in this digital age we have come to expect perhaps too much. But expecting a speed yesterdayer reporting mechanism than we encountered so far. So well hope for the best. At this point, in terms of the you talked about Public Perceptions and the reality on the grounds. Is this in your judgment i was talking with the president the other day. He remains positive and very pleased as he should be it seems to me with his administrations response. At the same time, we are talking about now the death toll is up to 28, 19 of those in a nursing home in kirkland, washington, as you well know. Relatively few of people having contracted the disease. Is it your sense we are making too much of this . Are we just about right . Or are we completely off the rails . Nobody has a crystal ball to know how this will unfold. From what we have seen in some other parts of the world with china and iran and italy. This virus should not be trifled with. It can spread very wide, very quick, very far. And we need to take this quite seriously. Having said that, we dont want to and pick. We dont want to do things that dont make any sense to us. I have would agree with some of the pronouncements. We are going to be okay, in six months or 13 mow months, the major wave of this will have passed. The question is are we going to get to that okay place by being smart or not so smart. To be broadly testing where we can to find out where it is and how far it penetrated. Then in those places where we are seeing Community Spread we need to wisely put in Public Health measures that will cause social distancing. Before this virus gets into the communities, canceling schools and events makes little sense. But we need to take prudent measures called social distancing. People need to stay home and Public Health needs to come in. Span we need to listen to Public Health when she they say put . School cancellations, and perhaps canceling events. Thats when it makes sense to me, listening to our experts fan put those things in place. The thing i would relate to the public is there will be you a shift in our recommendation sometime in the weeks to come. Right now we need to be testing as widely as we possibly can to figure out where this disease is. Once its in a community. Then the message is going to change a little bit. If puff an upper respiratory infection and a fever and you are doing okay, the best thing is to stay home, self quash teen. The last thing you want to do is start streaming into the knowledge room. When that shift occurs it will happen a few weeks down the road. Lou we thank you for lining up reality and perception. 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