29 Quotes by Dr. Gerberding

Until we have electronic health records, we're going to have to do this the old-fashioned way, by Mom's recall sometimes.

We have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.

I don't think we were expecting it to be so dramatic so quickly this year. We just didn't feel it was responsible to wait three more days during a holiday weekend to let clinicians know.

Part of the reason why we hoped to have full appropriation committed ... was to warrant to the manufacturers that we are serious.

Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon.

We have more than 1,000 cases reported from eight states, and we also have additional cases undergoing investigation in seven more states.

We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.

We know the virus is changing. We're watching little mutations occur all the time -- that's what flu viruses do.

We are increasingly not just going out to solve the outbreak related to the contaminated potato salad at the church picnic, but we are on the front line of global challenges.