A House Energy & Commerce subcommittee will be asking top U.S. health policymakers whether America’s hospitals and health care workers are adequately prepared for Ebola patients.
The committee’s oversight subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on Ebola for noon Thursday.
The witness includes public health officials such as Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
The list also includes Dr. Luciana Borio, assistant commissioner for counterterrorism policy at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Dr. Robin Robinson, director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; John Wagner, the acting assistant commissioner at the Office of Field Operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and Dr. Daniel Varga, chief clinical officer at Texas Health Resources.