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...
beginning doses flu goal million people predict season serious speeds vaccine whether year
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.
bit doses gives slow time
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.
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.
against asking available best doses groups patients people priority protect provide vaccine
We're asking those who provide influenza to give the first available doses to people in our priority groups ... Getting an influenza vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your patients against this disease,
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the big picture this year, unlike last year, is that there are plenty of doses and plenty of time for people to get vaccinated.
data demand impression solid
Our impression is the demand probably has increased, but we don't have solid data yet.
difficult fix government large market orders people problem tend treatment vaccine
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.
difficult hospitals prepare prepared scope
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.
exist gasoline orleans
It did exist in New Orleans but they didn't have gasoline for the generators,
naive
I think it would be naive to say we'd have it in under a year.
call deaths emerging epidemic given happens pattern reached status surprised terms threshold
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.
hurricane remember
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,
across birds stage wherever
Wherever the birds are going, the mosquitoes are following, and that really does set the stage for transmission across the country,
concerned
Tetanus is something we'd be especially concerned about,