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DOBBS: Absolutely, 149 fatalities, just about 2,000 people estimated to have been infected. Nearly everyone suspects the number is far larger than that. Let me ask you Sanjay, with Mexico is our near neighbor. It is obviously in need of assistance. We have TAMIFLU in our public health system. We have masks. Why are we not doing both the neighborly thing and the intelligent thing which is to help out our neighbors and send TAMIFLU and send those masks to the government of Mexico?
GUPTA: It is the intelligent thing because in the end it benefits really everybody. The public health goal in situations like this, containment, you want to try and contain this thing before it starts spreading around the world, which as you know it's already doing, but to still try and lessen those numbers. I don't know. I'm not sure exactly how those decisions are made. I sat down, I talked to the mayor of Mexico City. He said he would under any circumstances accept help from other places including the United States should that help be needed. For the time being, they say that they sort of have things under control. But being here for a couple of days now, it's controlled chaos. That's what it is, Lou, so I think the request for that help may be coming.
[Dobbs le hace la misma pregunta a la Dra. Schuschat del CDD.]
DOBBS: Obviously this originated in Mexico where it continues to worsen and the health minister there saying they expect this to be nowhere near the peak of the outbreak. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has just reported on a shortage of flu shots available, tamiflu, would it not be both compassionate, intelligent and reasonable for the united states, the centers for disease control, whatever agency is relevant here to provide additional flu shots to the folks in Mexico, they're our neighbor, they're also in proximity to the united states and to provide more masks and support?
SCHUCHAT: Let me clarify a few things.
DOBBS: Sure.
[Schuchat responde con una evasiva]
SCHUCHAT: The vaccine that we have right now, the seasonal flu vaccine, we don't think that will be effective against this particular swine flu virus. [ Dobbs no preguntó sobre la vacuna, sino sobre el medicamento antiviral.] We are taking steps to grow the virus here up into a vaccine seed strain that can be handed off to industry should we need to produce a vaccine in large quantities. So seasonal flu vaccine is a great idea, I hope you get one every year and it's a great way to protect yourself against regular flu, but we don't think it will prevent the swine flu that we're seeing right now. On the other hand you asked about assistance for the people of Mexico who are having a difficult time and we're all thinking about them right now particularly with the earthquake they just experienced. The world health organization and the global community have been working together for the past several years to look into issues like stockpiling materials that could be available to countries in need and the U.S. government as well has designated a portion of our own assets for potential international use. So I think all eyes are on Mexico now hoping that -- hoping that things get better and trying to learn more about what's going on.
[Dobbs insiste]
DOBBS: I suppose I have got to be a little more direct, what I'm really saying here, admiral, these are our neighbors, these people need some help and while it's very nice of the world health organization to study issues and to be somewhat abstract about it, I'm talking about more specific and more immediate help for the folks in particularly Mexico city who are short of masks and Tamiflu and we have supplies of both, should we not be responding on a humanitarian basis.
[y otra evasiva]
SCHUCHAT: I know that there are discussions ongoing about that. We have teams in Mexico working in a tri-national effort with Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. We have sent epidemiologists, we have sent lab specialists and we're working closely with them to ensure that we can assist.
Con el Dr. Blaser del NYSM:La transcripción completa del programa de L. Doubbs de anoche, aquí.
DR. MARTIN BLASER, NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Well, I think that Dr. Schuchat is correct, we're early in an epidemic. There's been an epidemic that's been going on in Mexico for probably a couple of months.
DOBBS: That long.
DOBBS: I have said it makes no sense to me. I called for straightforwardly the United States government to send masks and to send tamiflu to Mexico City. They're operating with too few masks, too few of just about everything necessary in Mexico City but importantly tamiflu and other anti-virals. Why would we not do that? First out of compassion and then because they're our neighbors, it is the intelligent thing to do.
BLASER: I agree with you. I awe should give tamiflu. I don't know how many doses will be need. We have a big stockpile. We are at the beginning of the outbreak with warm weather coming so we could -- we could easily afford to give them tamiflu.
DOBBS: Does it surprise you that we have not already taken steps to do is that that?
BLASER: I'm not sure what's done or not...
