Chris Coons actually said...

It is because the United States stepped in, and at the scale we did, that progress has been made in combating this terrible disease.

As Senator Durbin said to me, when we roll up a major intervention... sometimes we look at what are we leaving behind.

I hope we would instead look at what are we doing to build health forward.

It is indeed our hope and our prayer that in our emergency response we are focused on building sustainably very strong public health systems...