Incidence has declined little since late January, but Liberia has now gone 2 weeks with no cases.
The committee has been tasked with presenting by May a report on what has been called a slow response to the outbreak.
With its Mar 7 launch date, the trial's main goal is to see if ring vaccination can knock down Ebola hot spots.
Although Liberia had no new cases, Guinea reported 51 and Sierra Leone 81 as response hurdles emerge.
A Doctors without Borders official said the fatality rate in Ebola treatment centers is still an appalling 50%.
The Saudi government reports 15 MERS cases and 6 deaths over 3 days and promises weekly reports.
The ongoing string of MERS-CoV cases in Saudi Arabia continued with a report of three more late yesterday, along with three more deaths, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Today the MOH reported no new cases but noted two more deaths in previous cases. The latest reports raise the total cases this month to 71, with 30 deaths.
Steeply dropping cases, though, may cause the NIAID to vary from the original trial design.
Presidential panel finds "a failure to prepare and a failure to follow good science."
Officials reported fewer new cases overall last week than the week befeore, but progress stalled in Sierra Leone.
