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advice about who could be a leading global health figure who could take Tom's place. I discussed forcibly with her that I believe that Tom was an outstanding public health official and a man of great integrity. However, I told her that I have to frankly tell her that Tom's staff is not serving him well. For example many of the people from CDC who of gone to Dallas to oversee the situation in the care of are people who know Ebola from behind the desk but left even never taking care of the patient or have done so many years ago. I told her to give Tom a chance and that I would try to speak to Tom about relying less on advice from his staff and more on his own judgment. Again during this time I have had multiple conversations, on a daily basis usually late at night with Tom Frieden. I will refer to these specifically below. In general, I was trying to convince him that it is possible that the CDC protocols as they exist on their website are not adequate for the tertiary care setting that we have in large hospitals such as Texas Presbyterian and elsewhere in the United States. Tom keeps on insisting that the CDC protocols have worked for decades in the field in Africa and that his staff tells him that the reason why the Dallas nurses got infected was likely be cost they had some breach in the protocol. I literally begged him over the phone that he should not say this and that we should re-examine the CDC protocols. This will all become clear after we admit to NIH Special Clinical Studies Unit (SCSU) at the NIH Clinical Center on Oct. 16, 2014 (see below). Oct. 15, 2014 - Media frenzy continues. I do CNN New Day, Morning Joe early in the AM. Talk of shipping patients out of Texas Presbyterian Health Hospital since they have had 2 infections of their nurses and they expect possibly more infections due to exposure of other hospital staff. Since got infected, others who were doing the same things that they were doing might also wind up infected and they wanted to clear out and transfer them. Today it is made public that CDC told Vinson she could fly back to Dallas from Cleveland. Very bad press for CDC and Tom. Oct. 16, 2014 - A truly transforming and important day here at NIH. First I testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations chaired by Mr. Timothy Murphy (R-PA). Tom Frieden testified with me as did Luciana Borio of FDA, Robin Robinson of BARDA, and someone from Customs and Border Protection. Tom got hammered somewhat by the committee and was not strong and firm in his answers. He continues unfortunately to give a poor public appearance suggesting that he is not in control of the situation. He has shown the same slow deliberative response in the media which is costing him dearly since it is making him out to be less than he really is, which in my opinion is quite good. However, the most important event of the day was the fact that at 11:54 PM today, Thursday, October 16, 2014, Dallas nurse and now patient was transferred by air evacuation from Dallas to the NIH Clinical Center to be taking care of by us in the Special Clinical Studies Unit (SCSU). I had stopped off at Accura automobile showroom on Wisconsin Avenue where Diane Baker, Francis Collins's wife, was hosting a Friends