Our best bet for a rapidly developing is for a rapidly developing vaccine as we are looking at Hantavirus and Ebola. So I'm just really concerned that you have even terminated NIAID funding for a group that was studying the exact type of hantavirus that caused the deadly outbreak that we're dealing with right now. We've lost 4,000 expert staff. I know you're scrambling to rehire, but it just seems like we have dismantled our infectious disease research and development of pipeline and we will pay the price. (04:20–04:33)
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