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...
becoming health political sorry
I'm sorry that this is becoming a political issue. This is really a health issue,
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.
large numbers people potential
The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,
conditions diseases infectious preparing spread
We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters,
challenge children doses optimistic seniors
What we need to do is get them where we need them the most, that's our challenge right now, ... But we're very optimistic that the seniors and very young children and those who need the doses will be able to get them.
against asking available best doses groups patients people priority protect provide vaccine
We're asking those who provide influenza to give the first available doses to people in our priority groups ... Getting an influenza vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your patients against this disease,
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.
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.
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.