8 Quotes by Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

If you are between 5 and 60, you may be as sick as a dog, but you will recover. It's the very young and very old who don't have that immunity that are at risk.

You can do a lot to protect yourself by using hand hygiene, cough etiquette and staying home if you have a fever.

We are in outbreak mode. We are seeing much more evidence of flu than we normally see.

A lot of our facilities are old, with no isolation facilities.

There is no way at this time that we can even plan for this epidemic.

It looks definitely that we are way out of the ordinary. My prediction is that this will be a big flu season. It's all over Northern California.

In the next few weeks we will see a lot of it.