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...
china ongoing remain
We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore,
sorry year
We're sorry we have another frustrating year for some people.
normal range seeing time within
what we're seeing is well within the normal range for this time of year.
expect people receive time
We expect we'll have time for most people to receive their vaccine.
conditions diseases infectious preparing spread
We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters,
capacity predict
We still have no capacity to predict where it's going.
patience requiring
We know it's going to take time, ... It's requiring a lot of patience on everyone's part to get through this.
flu hard hour past people realize start until
When you start getting the flu it's hard to distinguish it from any other upper respiratory infections so most people don't realize they have flu until past the 48 hour window.
cases outside seeing
We're not seeing any cases outside of these groups,
marathon planning
We are planning for a marathon and not a sprint. We will be collaborating with many people...for many months,
concerned few limited national people
We are not experiencing a national outbreak, ... limited to a few exposures. Most people have nothing to be concerned about.
arms flu shot
We want the flu shot in their arms first.
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,