In the shelter situation, |
It did exist in New Orleans but they didn't have gasoline for the generators, |
It hasn't reached what we call the epidemic threshold status yet, in terms of deaths from influenza-like illness. But we won't be surprised if that happens given the pattern emerging right now. |
It is too early to tell if it's SARS. Anyone with pneumonia and a travel history is going to be under investigation. ... If you've not gone there, don't be concerned about it at this point. |
It would be unusual for measles or rubella or the other childhood-vaccine-preventable diseases to emerge, but many of the people in these shelters are among the people in our country who already experience health disparities, and we're erring on the side of immunizing anyone for whom we have any reason to suspect their vaccination status is not up-to-date. |
It's a fine line between outbreak or epidemic, |
It's a problem that is having an unusually high human toll this year, |
It's a vulnerable population, and the last thing they need to deal with in the context of all the other difficulties is a flu outbreak. |
It's at best embarrassing and at worst tragic that less than 50% of healthcare workers get vaccinated annually, |
Looking back to the 1918 pandemic virus is a natural source for us to try to understand and predict what we might be working with today in the context of H5 or some other pandemic, |
Looking back to the 1918 pandemic virus is a natural source for us to try to understand and predict what we might be working with today in the context of H5 or some other pandemic. |
Lots of people are at risk. It's not too late to get vaccinated, ... And we really want people to keep looking for vaccine, to contact the providers. |
More than 180 million people should get (flu) vaccine and we have never gotten anywhere near close to that, |
My own mother called me this week because her doctor told her that the vaccine was not available, |
Norovirus is not generally life-threatening, |