[If there's an early season,] we're likely to have in spot parts of the country increased morbidity and mortality, and that's what we're all fretting about, ... But it's relatively reassuring that it wasn't a bad October for the flu. If there were lots of influenza around lots of parts of the country in October, we'd be much, much more worried. |
By protecting personal and public health, they are vaccines at their best. |
Do it in droves. Just do it! |
I would anticipate that within two to three years we would have a vaccine that we're satisfied with. |
It is a big day for science, |
It is just a matter of time before [a pandemic] happens. |
It's a late summer phenomenon, ... It walked right out of the textbook. |
It's not a light switch, that three days after you take it, you're back to doing pushups and running, |
It's the sort of story you could tell high-school students to get them excited about science. |
NFID has championed a national initiative involving more than 20 professional groups to improve health care worker influenza immunization rates, and is pleased with the stronger CDC recommendations issued today. A key part of the recommendations are for health care facilities to develop systems to track immunization rates among health care workers and provide feedback during the influenza vaccination campaign, which will allow institutions to better manage information and in turn, increase immunization rates and improve patient safety. |
Only half goes directly from the manufacturers to the end users (such as pharmacies). The other half goes through a very complex distribution chain, from one company to another to another, two or three times, before it gets to the end user, |
Sometimes, the crystal ball is a little bit cloudy and the influenza virus fakes us out so that the virus in the vaccine isn't an exact match for the virus circulating in the community. |
That is a big spike. |
The committee decided there was no way to drive that bus, ... There's no organized way to do it. We don't have the influenza police. |
The kids were giving the hepatitis A virus to mom, dad and Uncle Tom. And so if they didn't get the disease, the parents were protected. |