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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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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Vaccine production in this country is not tied to public health priorities.
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I would anticipate that within two to three years we would have a vaccine that we're satisfied with.
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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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By protecting personal and public health, they are vaccines at their best.
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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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the stunning fact that children 6 to 23 months old, if they get influenza, have the same high rate of hospitalization as adults 65 years and older.
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This shows us once again that the world is a very small place. We have to remain on guard, even about diseases we usually rarely see anymore in this country.
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We're depending on the American distribution system set out by private enterprise; that accounts for its complexity,
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Only half goes directly from the manufacturers to the end users (such as pharmacies). The other half goes through a very complex distribution chain, from one company to another to another, two or three times, before it gets to the end user,
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NFID has championed a national initiative involving more than 20 professional groups to improve health care worker influenza immunization rates, and is pleased with the stronger CDC recommendations issued today. A key part of the recommendations are for health care facilities to develop systems to track immunization rates among health care workers and provide feedback during the influenza vaccination campaign, which will allow institutions to better manage information and in turn, increase immunization rates and improve patient safety.
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The reason this vaccination campaign was undertaken was spurious. It was a mirage, there was no threat of smallpox from Iraq. And that remains a powerfully sad coda to this whole episode.
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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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It's a late summer phenomenon, ... It walked right out of the textbook.