William Schaffner
William Schaffner
Captain William Schaffnerwas a pilot in the United States Air Force. He died in an incident in 1970 over the North Sea. Although unsubstantiated and in conflict with the official reports, UFO enthusiasts claim the incident was the result of contact with a UFO...
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It's the sort of story you could tell high-school students to get them excited about science.
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This is a blip on the radar screen, and it surely does mean that we have to keep the radar operative, ... We have to keep testing more viruses.
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The vaccine supply this year is expected to be very good, with over 90 million doses coming online in the weeks ahead.
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Sometimes, the crystal ball is a little bit cloudy and the influenza virus fakes us out so that the virus in the vaccine isn't an exact match for the virus circulating in the community.
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The kids were giving the hepatitis A virus to mom, dad and Uncle Tom. And so if they didn't get the disease, the parents were protected.
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The committee decided there was no way to drive that bus, ... There's no organized way to do it. We don't have the influenza police.
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The ultimate take-home line was that even a partially effective vaccine is an important part of the strategy.
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Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.
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We're very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening-a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.
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The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's available in West Africa. ... So we can move that needle of survival way down. Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.