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...
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the big picture this year, unlike last year, is that there are plenty of doses and plenty of time for people to get vaccinated.
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The biggest challenge of all is going to be maintaining the chronic-care services to the people who had them before the hurricane ever hit,
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Once the water subsides, once the basic services are restored, the biggest problems that people face are the mental health problems, ... When will life get back to normal?
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We are cautiously optimistic that at least in some parts of the country, influenza may have peaked. But there's still plenty of flu out there, and we're still encouraging people with flu-like illness who meet the criteria for concerns or complications to be sure and seek medical attention if they do develop the illness.
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There will be some people who may not be able to get vaccine who really need it.
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It would be unusual for measles or rubella or the other childhood-vaccine-preventable diseases to emerge, but many of the people in these shelters are among the people in our country who already experience health disparities, and we're erring on the side of immunizing anyone for whom we have any reason to suspect their vaccination status is not up-to-date.
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Some things we will do include isolating people who are sick and perhaps quarantining their counterparts.
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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.
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Rule No. 1 is to isolate people who are infected so they don't infect anyone else.
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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.
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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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More than 180 million people should get (flu) vaccine and we have never gotten anywhere near close to that,
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but for people under tremendous stress from the circumstances of the last days, we want to take every step to protect them.
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But any time you have this kind of crowding and people under stress, we have to be concerned.