CNN’s Cuomo Wants Obama Admin To Force Drug Companies To Make Ebola Drugs

CUOMO: “There are a lot of countries where you allow aide, humanitarian effort necessities in, but you limit travel to a certain degree. It certainly can be done, but it’s also probably a little far of field right now. Have you heard any talk down there about pushing big pharma to speed up development of the vaccines and, specifically, the treatments like ZMapp and the others? Is there any pressure on that level?”
ACOSTA: “Well, you know, I think that that is natural, to hope that something like that could occur. We did hear from Dr. Fauci — Dr. Tony Fauci from the NIH. He was over here at the White House as well and he actually gave some pretty optimistic news about an Ebola vaccine. He said it’s in the first phase of testing right now. They’ll have the final results by December as to whether or not they want to move to an extended trial period, and they think that could occur in the first quarter of next year. But as you know, Chris, dealing with radical new vaccines like the one that they’re trying right now at the NIH on Ebola, speeding up the process might carry with it some risks. And so they’re going through the normal process of getting that vaccine up and running, and they’re hoping that by next spring they might have actually something that could be put into practice on a widespread basis. But I’m not sure that the timetable can be sped up that much.”