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Paul A. Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology.

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The virus will continue to reproduce itself, continue to cause suffering and hospitalization, and worse still, continue to have the chance to make variants that are much more resistant to vaccine-induced immunity.

Found on CNN 6 days ago Top News

I think the chance that this was created by laboratory workers -- that it was engineered -- is zero.

Found on CNN 10 days ago Top News

You let the the first people who volunteer to get these vaccines be older adults, and then middle aged adults, and then we work our way down the age ladder, somebody may ask,' Gee, why don't you do them simultaneously ?' Well, there's not that bandwidth. You just can't do too many trials simultaneously.

Found on CNN 13 days ago Top News

We should be driven by the science, right now, the science tells us the two doses of the mRNA vaccine or a single dose of the Johnson Johnson vaccine would protect you against severe critical disease caused by the Delta variant.

Found on CNN 25 days ago Top News

I think that vaccines will keep you out of the hospital, will keep you out of the ICU, and will keep you from dying.

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

There was concern this would be misunderstood -- that people would think myocarditis was associated with vaccine, a colleague who was on the call said' This could put the kibosh on teenage vaccination.'.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

This makes me worry that people will be unnecessarily frightened about these vaccines.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

What I do know is they have to allow this, this is now the third pandemic strain that has raised its head in the last 20 years. The first was SARS 1, the second was MERS. I think that we can assume that we're not done with this.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

I think we need to fix this. We need to impress on people the importance of vaccination to stop the virus, how many more variants need to be created before this gets their attention ?

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

That didn't happen, now, we're asked to trust other adults in a situation where there's every reason not to trust a lot of people right now because there's so much denialism out there. There's so many people who don't wear masks, who don't get vaccinated.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

They don't completely escape, but they've started to escape, they're warning shots.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

It's all free, the government is paying for this.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

First of all, the vaccines aren't 100 % effective.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Some people are on cancer chemotherapy. They can't be vaccinated -- they depend on the herd to protect them.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Usually children are picked up incidentally as having( Covid-19). Someone in the family was infected, a friend was infected, so they got a PCR test. And they're found to be positive. ... Then they're fine.

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

The American public should understand that there is a risk, but it's an exceedingly rare risk, by basically putting a scarlet letter on this vaccine, by scaring people about this vaccine, by not really trusting them to understand the concept of relative risk, we may have done more harm than good, and there are people now who won't get a vaccine because this is the vaccine they would have gotten.

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I would make an effort to get an mRNA vaccine first, not being able to get it, and knowing I might not be able to get Pfizer or Moderna for many months, and knowing this virus is still ranging across the country, I would take JJ in the secure knowledge that I could get Pfizer or Moderna later.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

In a better world, we would have abundant quantities of this messenger RNA vaccine, Pfizer and Moderna, and that would be damning for a vaccine that's clearly less effective. But that said, we have limited quantities of mRNA vaccine.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

I don't think it's going to change at all under the new administration.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

It is a little worrisome that you see a lesser neutralizing antibody response, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you are unprotected, the goal of this vaccine is to keep you out of the hospital and to keep you out of the morgue. If you get a symptomatic infection or mildly symptomatic infection that is not a burden to the healthcare system.

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Top News

There are going to be people who either aren't getting this vaccine or aren't getting their second doses of vaccine, which then puts them at risk in a situation where we have a virus which is rapidly spreading in the country, there's going to be another probably roughly 100,000 people that die over the next couple of months, and among those people could be those who are not getting this vaccine because of quote-unquote' an abundance of caution.'.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

The thing about anaphylaxis is although it is frightening to watch, it's easily identified, it's quickly identified, and it's easily treated with epinephrine, i don't see how taking this off the market is a conservative thing to do or exercising an abundance of caution. I think all it does is put people at risk unnecessarily.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

The( US Food and Drug Administration) is generally so good at making sure that there is no lot-to-lot variation that you don't have a problem with so-called hot lots.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

The weather will get warmer, when the weather gets warmer, that makes it much more difficult for this virus.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

That's 20 % of the population who, when they're re-exposed to this virus, are not going to become sick with it.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

I think where people are right now is they have the vaccine and they just want to get it out there.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

They made the big gamble. They were willing to throw away hundreds of millions of doses if the vaccine were not safe or effective, when we look back on this historically, we will see this as a year when a remarkable amount was achieved in a short period of time.

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I think what's happening here is you're seeing bullying, at least at the highest level of the The FDA, and I'm sure that there are people at The FDA right now who are the workers there that are as upset about this as I am.

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

The one thing you can't truncate or coalesce or overlap is the Phase 3 trial, the proof is in the pudding. The Phase 3 trial's the pudding and now you're going to test hopefully 10, 15, 20,000 people that will get this vaccine, 15,000 people that will get placebo and you'll see to what extent this is really safe and you'll see to what extent it's effective.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

We just don't know if they're really safer.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Just because it's new doesn't mean it's better.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Given how this president has behaved, this incredibly dangerous scenario is not far-fetched.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

You are about to give a vaccine to tens of millions of people, i really wouldn't issue a press release about a number of people who you could invite to a small outdoor barbecue.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

This is a different time.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

People can claim what they want, but the proof is in the pudding, and this is the pudding.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

It's unclear how this virus is going to act.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The consent form was a three-by-five( inch) index card that says,' I allow my child to participate in a BLANK trial,' and then you would sign it, that could never happen today. And that's the fastest it could be done.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We don't do this for the flu, and it's known to cause 30,000 deaths in The United States every year.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

My gut says we're going to be able to contain this real quick -- we're going to be able to put a moat around this fire, i think this is going to be much more like SARS or MERS than the movie' Contagion.'.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

I think the conservative thing to do would be to cast a wider net.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

When you look at babies that have received aluminum-containing vaccines, you can't even tell the level has gone up.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

When Darla Shine talks about how great it was that Darla Shine had measles as a child, what Darla Shine forgets to mention is that Darla Shine gets to tell Darla Shine story because Darla Shine's alive. The ones who died -- we don't hear from them.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

At this point, you've had 17 previous studies done in seven countries, three different continents, involving hundreds of thousands of children, i think it's fair to say a truth has emerged.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

I think we are at a tipping point, i think people need to realize that a choice not to get a vaccine is not a risk-free choice. It's a choice to take a greater risk, and unfortunately right now, we are experiencing that greater risk.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

Do we have to wait until there's a few thousand cases of measles and children start to die. Will that move us ? invariably it is the children who will suffer from our ignorance.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Technology

If the bar is set at two doses, which is what Kathryn Edwards need the first time Kathryn Edwards get it, then unfortunately there are going to be some kids who don’t end up fully vaccinated even when their parents do bring them in for that first dose.

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Health

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Health

It's the Garden of Eden. And what have we done? Brought this virus into the Garden of Eden.

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Health

But for my children, who are 22 and 20, they not only don't see these (diseases), they didn't grow up with these diseases, for all the talking we do, nothing talks louder than the virus itself or the disease.

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

So is it possible that people who are asymptomatically shedding polio virus walk into this country? I think it happens all the time, and if enough people choose not to vaccinate, then these diseases come back and that's what we're seeing.

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

He will live in a vegetative state probably for five years until he dies from something else. Basically, we snuffed out potentially a 75-year-old perfectly normal life because of a false concern that vaccines would do harm, or in their misguided notion that somehow religion teaches us anything other than we should care for our children.

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

What I do is basically say, 'When you love your child, you bring your child to us to care for your child. By saying you don't want to get vaccines, you are asking me to practice substandard care,'.

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

And that's what you are seeing now.

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The flu vaccine will prevent influenza virus and the influenza virus only, certainly we see a lot of mixed respiratory virus infections in our hospital. We'll see often two viruses that are infecting at the same time. ... That makes it all the more important that you get your flu vaccine.

Found on CNN 6 years ago Health

When you look at vaccine preventable diseases in general, like the current measles outbreak, the vast majority of children are unvaccinated.

Found on CNN 6 years ago Health

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