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...
bit doses gives slow time
So we're getting off to a bit of a slow start, ... That gives us a little more time to get those doses out there.
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So we really need to help people move beyond the threat of the infectious disease and really think about the sadness and the difficulty that the people who are searching for their relatives are really experiencing in this context.
aware cases expect looking
As clinicians become more familiar, more aware of what we're looking for, we would expect to see more cases just because there are more cases being diagnosed.
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As an infectious disease expert, I've never seen a pathogen emerge and go away on its own, ... We have to expect that sometime, somewhere, this virus is going to rear its ugly head again.
anyone infected isolate people rule
Rule No. 1 is to isolate people who are infected so they don't infect anyone else.
children choose pregnant test tested women
Pregnant women can choose not to have the test and if they do, we want their children tested after birth,
effective germs hands means protecting strategy travel washing
Your hands are the most important means from which germs travel from one person to another. So it would make sense that washing your hands would be an effective strategy for protecting yourself.
mortality per rate sars
You may see the mortality rate go up -- but that's not necessarily because SARS per se is getting worse,
predict situation unable unstable
This is an unstable situation right now. We're unable to predict where this will go.
predict situation unstable
This is an unstable situation right now. We're not reliably able to predict where this will go.
low mainly people threat tragic
This is a tragic virus, but it is mainly there in that province, and is a very low threat to people here in this country.
data indicate larger magnitude problem
These data indicate that the magnitude of the problem is larger than we once thought,
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The specter of pandemic influenza is very frightening to people, ... It does remind people of the importance of influenza as an illness ... and in the long run may result in people being motivated.
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Other countries, like Hong Kong, have just not been able to keep the epidemic under control, and I wish we knew why,