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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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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I would anticipate that within two to three years we would have a vaccine that we're satisfied with.
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It's not a light switch, that three days after you take it, you're back to doing pushups and running,
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The kids were giving the hepatitis A virus to mom, dad and Uncle Tom. And so if they didn't get the disease, the parents were protected.
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The committee decided there was no way to drive that bus, ... There's no organized way to do it. We don't have the influenza police.
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This is a blip on the radar screen, and it surely does mean that we have to keep the radar operative, ... We have to keep testing more viruses.
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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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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 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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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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Vaccine production in this country is not tied to public health priorities.
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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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When you start re-breathing air in small rooms in your home or at work, you do increase your chances for respiratory trouble, ... But the general sense that cold, wet weather predisposes us to getting colds is not true.
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We should not expect perfection, or we'll be disappointed.