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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Other countries, like Hong Kong, have just not been able to keep the epidemic under control, and I wish we knew why,
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Dr. Goldman is a perfect match for the opportunities at Columbia. He is not only a leader of amazing innovations in medical education and biomedical research development, but also a long- standing champion of health promotion and primary prevention.
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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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We are very focused on the potential for and outbreak of pandemic influenza. We are looking back to the 1918 pandemic virus as a natural resource to help us understand and predict what we are dealing with.
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Your hands are the most important means from which germs travel from one person to another. So it would make sense that washing your hands would be an effective strategy for protecting yourself.
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You may see the mortality rate go up -- but that's not necessarily because SARS per se is getting worse,
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This is an unstable situation right now. We're unable to predict where this will go.
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This is an unstable situation right now. We're not reliably able to predict where this will go.
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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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Some things we will do include isolating people who are sick and perhaps quarantining their counterparts.
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So we're getting off to a bit of a slow start, ... That gives us a little more time to get those doses out there.
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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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As an infectious disease expert, I've never seen a pathogen emerge and go away on its own, ... We have to expect that sometime, somewhere, this virus is going to rear its ugly head again.