William Schaffner Quotes (19 Quotes)

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 vaccine supply this year is expected to be very good, with over 90 million doses coming online in the weeks ahead.

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,

By protecting personal and public health, they are vaccines at their best.

The reason this vaccination campaign was undertaken was spurious. It was a mirage, there was no threat of smallpox from Iraq. And that remains a powerfully sad coda to this whole episode.

This shows us once again that the world is a very small place. We have to remain on guard, even about diseases we usually rarely see anymore in this country.

I would anticipate that within two to three years we would have a vaccine that we're satisfied with.

the stunning fact that children 6 to 23 months old, if they get influenza, have the same high rate of hospitalization as adults 65 years and older.

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.

It is just a matter of time before a pandemic happens.

This is an elite team of people.

When you start re-breathing air in small rooms in your home or at work, you do increase your chances for respiratory trouble, ... But the general sense that cold, wet weather predisposes us to getting colds is not true.

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.

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.

We should not expect perfection, or we'll be disappointed.

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,

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.

Vaccine production in this country is not tied to public health priorities.