116 Quotes by Julie Gerberding

People who place large orders for vaccine tend to get preferential treatment by distributors. This is a market distribution problem that's difficult to fix from a government perspective.

Tetanus is something we'd be especially concerned about,

My own mother called me this week because her doctor told her that the vaccine was not available,

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.

I think hospitals did what they could to be prepared but I think it is difficult to prepare for something of this scope and, particularly in New Orleans, the flooding.

It did exist in New Orleans but they didn't have gasoline for the generators,

I think it would be naive to say we'd have it in under a year.

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.

Wherever the birds are going, the mosquitoes are following, and that really does set the stage for transmission across the country,