Thursday, April 2, 2015

Gave Q and A-type lecture on 7th floor of Humphrey Building hosted by Bill Schultz the General Counsel of HHS. Big crowd of all the OGC people from the department. I told the story (via questions from Bill) about my dealings with multiple administrations. After the session 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, Sylvia Burwell had asked to see me in her office. She had just come back from the White House. She profusely thanked me and the NIH team for all we are doing with and with the vaccine trials. Apparently Tom Frieden had told her that he did not want to CDC to “move into Guinea” because of the instability. A bit puzzling since the CDC is already there. We still plan to extend the RCT vaccine trial to Guinea. up and walking. Unfortunately, despite 3 negative CT’s for blood, he reverted (after one negative) to positive in his left axilla sweat/skin.