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...
cases outside seeing
We're not seeing any cases outside of these groups,
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.
capacity predict
We still have no capacity to predict where it's going.
expect people receive time
We expect we'll have time for most people to receive their vaccine.
sorry year
We're sorry we have another frustrating year for some people.
china ongoing remain
We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore,
activity local seeing seven
We're seeing very sporadic activity in seven states, and local activity in one state.
followed published sequence suit
Today, CDC has followed suit and has published the sequence of the virus.
hope human sustained
What we don't have, and what we hope we never have, is sustained human to human transmission like we do with seasonal influenza.
flood people
What we don't want is for people to flood in in a disorganized way,
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.
normal range seeing time within
what we're seeing is well within the normal range for this time of year.
identified strain
We haven't identified anything about this strain that's different from strains in the other areas.
country might produced vaccine
We might actually end up with the most-ever influenza vaccine produced in this country,