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...crisis of this kind is that too often no one knows just who should answer the alarm. The General Accounting Office concluded that there is a "significant coordination and fragmentation problem" in the government's ability to handle terrorism. "If I was going to rebuild the system," Thompson himself told TIME, "I'd probably make some changes...
...about the matter. "We cannot put him out at each new development," a senior Administration official told TIME. "And there were a lot of developments this week." Bush doesn't want to be announcing the results of each nasal swab; that's what Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Homeland Security czar Tom Ridge are meant to do. But Wednesday they were saying little and nothing, respectively, so Bush's silence just compounded the concern about who knew what and who was in charge and where this all was heading. The anthrax incidents presented both a health threat...
Person of the Week MORE DRUGS, PLEASE To cure fears of bioterrorism, U.S. health czar Tommy Thompson prescribes stockpiling enough antibiotics to treat 12 million people for anthrax. He is also asking Congress?just in case?for 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine, enough to treat every American...
...even as demand soared, controversy erupted in the U.S. over the steep price of Cipro, which sells under different names across Europe. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said negotiations were underway with Bayer to relax its patent on Cipro; the company wouldn?t comment. No wonder: a month?s supply of Cipro retails for a steep $350 in the U.S., while the generic version in India costs about $10. The Cipro patent has expired in Germany but will run until December...
...Thompson promised last week that the U.S. wouldn?t violate Bayer?s patent, though lawyers say the federal government has the authority to do so. Bayer sells its drug to the government for about $1.50 a dose, about one-third of the usual wholesale price. The Bush Administration has announced plans to spend $643 million increasing the nation?s drug stockpile, not only of Cipro, whose active ingredient is ciprofloxacin, but also of two other anthrax fighters, penicillin and doxycycline. Though they are much cheaper than Cipro, they are not as effective against genetically engineered anthrax...