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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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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Our impression is the demand probably has increased, but we don't have solid data yet.
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Well, we're just at the beginning of the flu season, so we can't predict whether this is going to be a serious year or not, ... We have 20 million more doses of flu vaccine to get out there, and our goal is to get those doses to the people who need it the most before the season really speeds up.
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People who place large orders for vaccine tend to get preferential treatment by distributors. This is a market distribution problem that's difficult to fix from a government perspective.
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I think hospitals did what they could to be prepared but I think it is difficult to prepare for something of this scope and, particularly in New Orleans, the flooding.
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It did exist in New Orleans but they didn't have gasoline for the generators,
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I think it would be naive to say we'd have it in under a year.
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It hasn't reached what we call the epidemic threshold status yet, in terms of deaths from influenza-like illness. But we won't be surprised if that happens given the pattern emerging right now.
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I think it is really important to remember that when this hurricane was coming, we actually didn't know where it was going to go,
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Wherever the birds are going, the mosquitoes are following, and that really does set the stage for transmission across the country,
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Tetanus is something we'd be especially concerned about,
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My own mother called me this week because her doctor told her that the vaccine was not available,
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Looking back to the 1918 pandemic virus is a natural source for us to try to understand and predict what we might be working with today in the context of H5 or some other pandemic.
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We need to create a culture where hand-washing is the thing to do, ... If we can just wash our hands, we will have an impact on some of the most common problems, as well as some of the most serious health problems we face.