Paul Offit Quotes

You're talking about a billion-dollar project for not a very high-profit product. - Paul Offit

What makes you vulnerable is the virulence, the dangerousness, of the virus, and the 1918 virus was one dangerous virus... Avian flu, too - when it infects, it kills. That's why people are scared, and reasonably so. - Paul Offit

Unsurprisingly, politicians spout sound bites about their unwillingness to remove 'consumer protections' from the equation, but they have it all wrong... The only real way to 'protect' consumers is to keep them alive. We must move fast and we must move now. The clock is ticking. - Paul Offit

The virus is clearly not highly contagious among mammals, and I don't think it's going to become so. - Paul Offit

The question becomes, which is the conservative and which is the radical decision? I think the more radical choice, frankly, is not to give the vaccine. - Paul Offit

The problem with the original vaccine is when given to kids over 7, it caused some pretty severe reactions. - Paul Offit

The problem was, the earlier vaccines didn't cause long-lasting immunity... Frequent boosting was required. - Paul Offit

Rotavirus basically affects everybody by the time they are 5. If we took blood samples of all people, it would be rare to find someone who has not had rotavirus. - Paul Offit

If you have a child under 3 who comes into the emergency department in winter with fever and vomiting or diarrhea or both, there's a 90% chance it's rotavirus. - Paul Offit

God knows we need a vaccine against traveler's diarrhea. This approach is very straightforward and seems to work. - Paul Offit

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