Julie Gerberding
Julie Gerberding
Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., is an American infectious disease expert and the former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventionand administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry...
data demand impression solid
Our impression is the demand probably has increased, but we don't have solid data yet.
difficult fix government large market orders people problem tend treatment vaccine
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.
difficult hospitals prepare prepared scope
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.
exist gasoline orleans
It did exist in New Orleans but they didn't have gasoline for the generators,
naive
I think it would be naive to say we'd have it in under a year.
call deaths emerging epidemic given happens pattern reached status surprised terms threshold
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.
context looking might natural pandemic predict source today understand virus
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.
concerned
Tetanus is something we'd be especially concerned about,
doctor mother vaccine week
My own mother called me this week because her doctor told her that the vaccine was not available,
hurricane remember
I think it is really important to remember that when this hurricane was coming, we actually didn't know where it was going to go,
followed published sequence suit
Today, CDC has followed suit and has published the sequence of the virus.
flood people
What we don't want is for people to flood in in a disorganized way,
hope human sustained
What we don't have, and what we hope we never have, is sustained human to human transmission like we do with seasonal influenza.
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One of the most significant concerns from a public health perspective is that we know a lot of children who are overweight grow up to be overweight or obese adults, and thus are at greater risk for some major health problems.