So the small number of cases is good to hear but do you have it at UConn now?

22 million Americans have become ill with this virus; 98,000 people have needed hospitalization; and approximately, a little short of 4,000 people, including about 540 children, have passed away.

I must say, respectfully, I did not find the Secretary's response to our letter satisfactory.

The advice now nationally and from the State is not to close schools, but to send kids home who seem to be sick.

There is a feeling, in response to some of the things that experts like yourself have said, that it is possible that the current outbreak will diminish as what we have come to call 'flu season' ends, but then may pick up again in a much…

Oh, that is great; a healthy population up there.

I hope that you and she together will go back and look at this and try to draw some lessons from it so that some of the great things that have been done here do not for some reason end up causing the kind of frustration and anxiety that…

I think there is a lot of reason for the American people to feel encouraged that the Federal Government is really there on this occasion protecting them.

To the extent that you can find that out--you have other things to do--I would appreciate just having an answer to that for the record.

If this becomes more severe, I am sure we will do everything we can.

Every time we get ready to deal with something like H1N1, we also prepare ourselves to deal better with other kinds of public health or natural or unnatural disasters.

I am from the Federal Government and I am here to help.

If you all with your extraordinary capabilities develop a vaccine that works against swine flu, why would we not make it?

We are staying flexible.

I take it that in a lot of cases of people with H1N1, they will get over it because their bodies ultimately reject it or it finishes its course and the body gets better again.

I want to urge you, as I did last time, particularly because of the problems we have talked about with the vaccine, that you really stay on top of it to make sure that we do not come to a point where there is a shortage of the IV…

Why not just say no, you cannot go to Mexico from the United States for some period of time, not just have a travel advisory?

My theory on this--and I am just observing--is that the government, HHS, CDC, should have done a large national announcement of a reduced list of people who had to go out and get the vaccine.

There is going to be no resistance here to providing you and the other departments of our government with all the money you need to protect the American people.

I appreciate very much that was done.

I worry that we are undermining confidence generally in our public health system.

Do we have the domestic capacity to produce sufficient quantities of vaccine up to the 300 million?

How much does it cost you to implement such a system? And then what are the economic consequences and personal consequences on our country and our neighbors in Mexico?

So now let me go to the vaccine. Am I correct that a decision has been made that if we can develop a vaccine for swine flu, we will definitely make it?

Thanks, Senator Kirk.