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It is cubist pharmaceuticals. Merck buying the company. Meg terrell was ahead of the story on friday telling us a deal was in the works. She is in San Francisco at one of the biggest cancer meetings of the year and scored a live interview with mercks ceo. Thank you so much. Lets bring in ken frazier, the ceo of merck. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, meg, for having me. Always good to be on cnbc. Well, so this is a big deal in a space that has been a tough area, antibiotics and a Huge Public Health need. Tell us why this makes sense for merck. Every year in this country about 2 Million Peo...

Quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Cardin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Mr. Cardin i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin i ask unanimous consent that floor privileges be granted to major david wilson, a u. S. Air force officer who is currently serving as a defense legislative fellow in my office for the duration of todays session in the senate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin this is a bittersweet moment for me because major da...

Kindergarten entry, San Francisco School Children are immunized at the same rate as children state wide, which is about 90 percent and that is the threshold you need for heard immunity. That sh the vaccination you need to stop the spread of measles epidemic within your community. The good news is San Francisco has a very low rate of personal belief exemptions so thaes are vaccine refusal. [inaudible] because of concerns that have been debunkted around autism. We have School Children in the system that are called transitional entrance and these are children that dont have evidence of complete i...

Residence, so we havent had a San Francisco resident associate would thes outbreak, but it wouldnt surprise me if we do have one. We have done a lot of testing and fielding inquirys from local providers so we have been looking for measles. Im going to go back for a second here. Basically we are one of the only bay area counties that hasnt had a measle case. [inaudible] what about San Francisco schools . We have data on imueization dates among School Children in all schools in San Francisco and if you look at the total population of School Children and specifically cichbder gartners you receive...

Transitional entrance and these are children that dont have evidence of complete imueization at the time they enter school and they are allowed in with the understanding they will go to the medical praider and get their needed immunizations. Now something that has been extremely pauseive to come out of the current measle situation is our department is working with San Francisco Unified School District to provide free measle vaccine for children not up to date. This being done through the School Health clinic, but there may be School Districts Health Clinic and they are in the process of indivi...