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Captain William Schaffner (born September 11, 1941 - September 8, 1970) was a pilot in the United States Air Force.

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We need full licensure to reach more unvaccinated people, and obviously getting more people vaccinated as quickly as possible is critical to our trying to control this ongoing pandemic, which now is surging yet again in the United States.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 5 days ago Politics

I think the real risk from hand shaking is coming so close to another person, if you're shaking hands, you're usually really quite close to someone, at least momentarily, and you're likely to be close to that person in conversation for a period of time.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

Doctors and patients are encouraged to report medical events that happen after vaccination, if there is even a thought or hypothesis or a question whether it may be related to the vaccine.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

If these events occur more frequently in the vaccinated population than the unvaccinated population, then there's reason to think it might be because the vaccine may have caused it. But if the incidents occurred similarly in the vaccinated and the unvaccinated population, then it is overwhelmingly likely they were just coincidental and would have occurred anyways.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Every time this virus finds a new person, it multiplies. Every time it multiplies, it creates mutations that can spring off, and those mutations can create a variant that is so different that our current vaccine protection might not work or might not work as well.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

It is possible a year from now, that I'll get a flu shot in one arm and a Covid vaccine update booster in the other, we'll have to adapt ourselves to what it is that this virus is doing. And we have the capacity to keep up with the virus, and even get ahead of it.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

Of course, our' bet,' if you will, came up a winner.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

Our current ability to determine whether Michael Osterholm particular patient has this new strain is very limited, and so this really reinforces the notion that other countries have much more capacity to do this than we do.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

In other words, we could bring the vaccine to the people.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

The more vaccines you have, the less you have to worry about prioritization, we know it’s not going to be perfect, but who cares, we need to get them into the arms.

– William Schaffner

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Top News

It we all got together, wore the masks and did the social distancing, we could bend this curve within two or three weeks, we would see actually transmission go down even before we get to the vaccines.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

The national politicians have been very much out front in this and have really created a very substantial political veneer over the entire vaccine development process, that has had an effect of creating a terrific amount of skepticism.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

When they don't answer questions, that's when I begin to get nervous.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

I suspect we'll have more vaccine for the United States before we have it for the entire world.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 10 months ago Health

They wear masks. They do social distancing. They are meticulous, the other day, they came over to our pool and they stayed on one end of the pool and we stayed on the other. They never went inside the house. My wife said to me,' Well, they're not going to be helpful in the trials, that's for sure.'.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Don't go around looking for reasons not to wear the mask, just wear it. Get used to it, we want to all be in this together to affirm our solidarity.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 11 months ago Health

We think antibodies correlate with protection, but we don't really know that yet.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 11 months ago Health

They've been studied and we know that after you had a cold, you develop antibodies to that particular human strain of coronavirus and you will be protected, but it turns out the protection begins to wane after about a year.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 11 months ago Health

Since we don't know how long natural protection will last, it may be the case that even people who have been infected may require the vaccine at some point, that remains to be determined.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's certainly a novel and provocative approach to trying to prevent this illness. We need all the help we can get, what we've seen are previews of coming attractions, as they say in the movie theater.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

What we've seen are previews of coming attractions, as they say in the movie theater.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Are there side streets where it can become an aerosol and spread into the air ? Yes.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

I thought they were getting very prissy and trying to slice the salami very fine, you can be vertical and feel 100 % or virtually 100 % and going about your daily business and unaware that you're infected and perfectly capable transmitting the virus.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

You can be vertical and feel 100 % or virtually 100 % and going about your daily business and unaware that you're infected and perfectly capable transmitting the virus.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

This study illuminates that a large proportion of the population was susceptible and can indeed await potential infection down the road this summer, and especially this winter.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Some of us in the scientific community here in the US have been a little surprised at the sprightly competitiveness of some of the comments from our colleagues at Oxford. We don't usually see that in public pronouncements, we've been grumpy with our national political leaders about providing inaccurate information, and we should hold scientific leaders to those same standards.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Covid-19 is too contagious, we anticipate that this fall will be a great struggle with influenza and, in addition, Covid.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It sounds as though we're in a locked room, wanting to get out, the door out of that locked room, we hope, is a vaccine. But in the meantime, we can't just be complacent.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The vaccine isn't perfect, but it still can prevent many infections and make other infections less severe.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I certainly would not recommend that people in the U.S. ask their physicians to prescribe hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID, its use is entirely speculative.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

The air seems to have gone out of the hydroxychloroquine balloon I'm afraid, i'd be surprised if there were many patients and their families or doctors who would want to pursue using hydroxychloroquine.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

You may have to help the person use the facilities, you can assign one person in the family to help them and to establish their routine.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

The findings are of enormous interest because the proportion of people who are asymptomatic is just simply not known.

– William Schaffner

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

We don't think food is a mode of transmission of this virus, there are two ways it can transmit -- the animal is butchered and you create aerosols during the course of butchering and breathe them in.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

There is near a 100 % likelihood that there was just one transmission, this is a powerful statement -- one transmission from some animal source to a human that likely occurred in a wet market in China.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

The president walks on the sunny side of the street, and this takes us over to the shady side of the street, it makes us realize that springtime is likely not going to be a total solution.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Ferrets are classical animals in which to study influenza -- it's been done for decades, if scientists were looking for an animal model, they would reach for the ferrets first.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think it might give us a little bit of hope.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Science

Maybe going for a walk in the park and getting a cup of coffee afterward or a soda, so dating styles may have to change, but I wouldn't think two people getting together would be inappropriate. And you can have a conversation about that.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

If you're in this group, you're not in trouble. Whether you have flu or Covid-19 or some other respiratory virus, we anticipate you will do well, but should you develop any symptoms that show you're getting worse, particularly if you have any difficulty breathing, you will call us.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It's not a tickle in your throat. You're not just clearing your throat. It's not just irritated. You're not putting anything out, you're not coughing anything up, the cough is bothersome, it's coming from your breastbone or sternum. and you can tell that your bronchial tubes are inflamed or irritated.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We do not test people with no symptoms because it's a resource issue, however, we are emphasizing that people who have this small cluster of important symptoms -- fever and anything related to the lower respiratory tract such as cough and difficulty breathing -- reach out to be evaluated.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

People under 60 with underlying illnesses, with diabetes, heart disease, immunocompromised or have any kind of lung disease previously, those people are more vulnerable despite their younger age.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Its a new virus, and it may not have read the textbooks. Thats why the current, ongoing research to develop vaccines and antiviral drugs that are effective against coronaviruses is so important, he continued. The virus is new in humans -- meaning medical experts at this time can not predict the long-term impact on the global community.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Health

This is not an instruction. This is not an order, i'm not asking everyone to stay at home and lock the door for a month. I'm saying, be thoughtful every time you contemplate getting together with a crowd or group.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

When my wife and I need to go shopping, we're going late at night when there are no crowds, and we get in and out efficiently.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Don't go. Be reverent at home.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

It's leaving all influenza virologists puzzled.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

[ The vaccine ] may not prevent the illness completely.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Everyone with whom I've spoken, or whom I've read, thinks that it has come from a natural source, as did the SARS virus, as did the MERS virus. Both of those were also coronaviruses in animal populations that jumped to the human species in the natural environment, by now scientists all over the world have looked at this virus and nothing nefarious has come up.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Problems with vaccine storage and handling come up with some frequency.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Last year was also a double barreled season and we hadn't see that in a long time. Normally there's a and b smolders along in background, usually it doesn't cause large outbreaks but this year the Bs didn't read the text book.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

This is very, very important, and I think The CDC recognizes that, i think they're working literally day and night to get these testing kits assembled and training done so state health departments can do this testing.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

It means the infection is much more contagious than we originally thought, this is worse than we anticipated.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Assuming that Ma is correct, we're going to have to re-evaluate our strategy, that's for sure.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

I think what they're saying is virus number one initiates an inflammatory response which then acts as a barrier to the second virus, i think there are also some data to suggest Vanderbilt University's two viruses can not simultaneously infect the same cell.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

There are times when one viral infection may be so apparent, shall we say, that it actually acts as a barrier to your getting a second, we're just beginning to find out whether this is virus specific or whether it has more to do with the intensity of the infection.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

I come down with a cold and I say to William Schaffner,' Oh my goodness, how did I get this cold ?' I wasn't around anyone who was coughing and sneezing in the last 48 hours, but I was around a healthy person carrying the cold virus in their throat who didn't know they were capable of spreading it.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

I would have thought that CBP would have addressed this over the summer and we would now have a system in place, vaccination is not complicated. We conduct mass campaigns all the time.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

The facilities in which they're detained could not be better designed for the spread of influenza.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

We get on our soapbox and remind people that everyone older than 6 months needs to be vaccinated every year.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

What the vaccine does is shift the equation in our favor.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

That was part of the motivation, of course, to change the H3N2 component for the coming year, the flu vaccine has been reconstituted to be a better match, particularly for the H3N2 component.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

If you get the flu, call your health care provider, treatment is available. It helps.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

These measles outbreaks are remarkably persistent.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

We've had the dominance of H1N1 yield to now a dominance or at least an equivalence of H3N2, which means that the strain that causes more severe disease is actually producing a substantial amount of late season influenza this year.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

We are having a distinctive, prolonged influenza season.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

It's difficult to speak with you because all my fingers and toes are cramped from being crossed.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

If you become sick, please call your health care provider, because they may well provide a prescription for antiviral drugs that can help reduce the severity and duration of your illness.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Although it's not perfect, it still prevents many, many infections, and even if you should get influenza despite having received the vaccine, it tends to make a less severe infection. You are certainly less likely to get the complications of pneumonia, having to be hospitalized and dying.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Older people may have been infected with cousins of H1N1 years ago, and that gives them residual protection.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

The vaccine is not perfect, none of us believe it is, but it's the best thing we have for preventing influenza, and even if it doesn't prevent the illness completely, and this is very important, it tends to make the illness milder.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

The vaccine is not perfect, but give the vaccine credit for softening the blow.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Trying to think about it more positively, I hope the research continues to develop a Zika vaccine in the event we have another early signal of a Zika virus outbreak anywhere in the world, a vaccine could be deployed very, very quickly, and that would blunt the horrific impact of the Zika virus.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

There's a whole spectrum of more subtle manifestations that can actually manifest themselves later.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

You are contagious before you are ill and during the illness, but undoubtedly people have the virus in their intestinal tract who never get ill.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 3 years ago Health

Measles is the most highly infectious virus that we know of and can be transmitted fairly readily to susceptible individuals, the measles virus can hover in the air and be infectious for hours afterward.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

When you are in the developing world, there’s an old rule. Avoid salads, regarding everything else, make sure before you eat it, it’s heated.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Health

Those are the kinds of things that can happen to people when you put on a little mileage over the years, both of the leading candidates are over 65 years of age. It wasn’t so long ago that once you reached your 65th birthday, that’s the time you retired — it wasn’t the time you took one of the most strenuous positions you could think of.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Health

ACIP decided it could not in good conscience recommend the use of this vaccine until the problem had been resolved and new data had been presented.

– William Schaffner

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Company News

They don't say for how long, that's because they don't know. As it was with Ebola, we're learning as we go.

– William Schaffner

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Health

A little bit of transmission? Sure, but the main engine of transmission that has led this virus to be spread widely throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean is, of course, the mosquito.

– William Schaffner

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Health

We don't know whether it can move from a woman to a man. We assume also that if a man can transmit it to a woman, that a man could also transmit it to another man.

– William Schaffner

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Health

Our crystal balls are a little cloudy at this point this year, but the H3N2 virus should be the dominant strain this year, while it tends to produce more influenza symptoms, and that's the bad news, the good news is now the vaccine has been modified and it does include H3N2 strain, so it ought to be more on target with the dominant strain of the virus this year.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 5 years ago Health

Don't wait, some rather elegant studies have shown it is more effective the earlier you take them and you become less infectious to others.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 5 years ago Health

Just for scientific reasons, we had difficulty making an effective vaccine. But that's been successful now, the FDA has approved two different types of meningococcal group B vaccines that have been recently licensed.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 6 years ago Health

Particularly if you get into the gray-haired group —that group has all seen measles, they know about it and respect it and even, in a sense, fear it.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Health

It's no wonder that if you're not taught about these things in school, when you become a parent you're scratching your head.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Health

If you had asked me this question five or six years ago, I would have said that the risk was virtually nonexistent, over the past several years, with more and more children being withheld from vaccinations and more and more introduction of measles, I would have said it’s still very low. But today, in the context of the Disneyland outbreak, with it having spread to so many states, I would still acknowledge that the risk is low but it’s much larger than it was, and I would be nervous about that.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Travel

An unvaccinated child will be exposed to risk everywhere, but more so in certain circumstances than in others, for example, more so in Colorado than in Mississippi. But I don’t think you’re going to get a recommendation with a capital R from the CDC or the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Travel

And interestingly, it’s Mississippi, last in so many things, that is first in immunization rates, because that state does not allow either personal belief or religious exemptions.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Travel

I think the Disneyland outbreak clearly has brought this issue to everyone’s forceful attention, and it’s got to be recognized how fragile was our triumph in eliminating measles from the United States, which we had been successful at doing.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Travel

Measles kills, and it’s also the easiest to catch. It’s the single most transmissible virus we know, and that accounts for the fact that it’s spreading so rapidly among these kids.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Travel

I promise you as the season goes on, there are other strains circulating or will circulate as we get in January and February, although the vaccine is not perfect, it is still pretty good.

– William Schaffner

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Health

Last year was an unfortunate reminder that no one is exempt from flu's most severe consequences.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN 6 years ago Health

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