24 Quotes by William Schaffner

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.

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,

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

We're depending on the American distribution system set out by private enterprise; that accounts for its complexity,

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

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

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.

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.