Dr. Gerberding
Dr. Gerberding
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Currently, fewer than half of health care workers get vaccinated for flu each year. When people who work in hospitals and health care facilities don't get vaccinated, they can pose a serious risk to their patients.
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We've got to get a vaccine supply that we can count on. We've got to get more and better antiviral drugs. And we've got to have every single link in our public health system as strong as it can be so we can detect this problem and do the things at the local community level that we need to do to save lives.
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Until we have electronic health records, we're going to have to do this the old-fashioned way, by Mom's recall sometimes.
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Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon.
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Cigarette smoking continues to impose substantial health and financial costs on individuals and society. If we want to significantly reduce the toll in this decade, we must provide the 32 million smokers who say they want to quit with the tools and support to do so successfully.
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The financial and economic impact of injuries in the United States is serious. However, by expanding our science-based, injury-prevention programs, we can drastically reduce these costs and even more importantly help people live longer and healthier lives.
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The late 50s and early 60s are a crucial time to focus on disease prevention. It's never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle to enjoy a longer, healthier life.
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We will not be surprised if we see more people affected either in college context or as students spend time with their families or with their community friends. We will continue to see an extension of this outbreak into the community level.
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We certainly will not see a complete end of mumps when this cycle is broken.
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These are really tough problems, and we don't have an answer we can hand you in a cookbook.
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Our current situation now is not a good situation. We have these ongoing and widespread outbreaks.
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We have more than 1,000 cases reported from eight states, and we also have additional cases undergoing investigation in seven more states.
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We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.
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We know the virus is changing. We're watching little mutations occur all the time -- that's what flu viruses do.