Dr. Schaffner Quotations

We have to hold on to this vaccine and work on a new vaccine.

With every new disease, the most severe cases come to initial attention, and then as we look harder, we see milder cases.

We will be staying home, concerts won't be going on. We might close schools in some communities.

We cannot let our guard down, because a series of genetic changes could happen at any time that could allow this virus to pick up the capacity to move from person to person.

People are trying to work out contingency plans to make sure there's a more equitable distribution. I'm sure it will never be perfect, but without work now, it'll certainly be chaotic later.

Stopping smoking is something I think I would have put right at the top of the list.

This is a much larger outbreak than any of us anticipated. Maybe the immunity generated by the mumps vaccine can wane and then you become newly susceptible, particularly if you encounter a large dose of virus.

It's always an uncertainty. We're always at the infectious disease roulette table.

It's become one of the dominant infections of childhood.

I know we have one at home. In reading this, I frankly was reminded that we ought to update it.