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I suspect we'll have more vaccine for the United States before we have it for the entire world.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
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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.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
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We think antibodies correlate with protection, but we don't really know that yet.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
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What we've seen are previews of coming attractions, as they say in the movie theater.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
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Are there side streets where it can become an aerosol and spread into the air ? Yes.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 4 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 4 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
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The findings are of enormous interest because the proportion of people who are asymptomatic is just simply not known.
Found on Reuters 6 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
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Problems with vaccine storage and handling come up with some frequency.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
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It means the infection is much more contagious than we originally thought, this is worse than we anticipated.
Found on CNN 9 months ago
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Assuming that Ma is correct, we're going to have to re-evaluate our strategy, that's for sure.
Found on CNN 9 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
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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.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
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The facilities in which they're detained could not be better designed for the spread of influenza.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
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We get on our soapbox and remind people that everyone older than 6 months needs to be vaccinated every year.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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What the vaccine does is shift the equation in our favor.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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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.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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If you get the flu, call your health care provider, treatment is available. It helps.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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These measles outbreaks are remarkably persistent.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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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.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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We are having a distinctive, prolonged influenza season.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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It's difficult to speak with you because all my fingers and toes are cramped from being crossed.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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Older people may have been infected with cousins of H1N1 years ago, and that gives them residual protection.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
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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.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
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There's a whole spectrum of more subtle manifestations that can actually manifest themselves later.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
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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.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
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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.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
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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.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
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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.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
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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.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
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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.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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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.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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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.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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