Dr. Julie Gerberding Quotes

Our current situation now is not a good situation. We have these ongoing and widespread outbreaks. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

If you are a bird, this is a pandemic. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

I don't think we were expecting it to be so dramatic so quickly this year. We just didn't feel it was responsible to wait three more days during a holiday weekend to let clinicians know. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

Hope is not a strategy. We have to plan. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be. We're certainly doing more today than we were even two years ago, so we're making fast progress. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

Currently, fewer than half of health care workers get vaccinated for flu each year. When people who work in hospitals and health care facilities don't get vaccinated, they can pose a serious risk to their patients. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

Cigarette smoking continues to impose substantial health and financial costs on individuals and society. If we want to significantly reduce the toll in this decade, we must provide the 32 million smokers who say they want to quit with the tools and support to do so successfully. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

But it really takes a lot of time and a lot of money. There are a lot of black boxes out there where something could emerge and we won't be able to find it. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

A lot of clinicians have never seen a case of mumps. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

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