We're doing the same thing others are doing. We have to look at opportunities for us to invest resources to have the best possible impact and at some programs that have been around for long time that may not be doing as well.
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.
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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.
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This is not media hype. This is a real issue for us.
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Hope is not a strategy. We have to plan.
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We know the virus is changing. We're watching little mutations occur all the time -- that's what flu viruses do.
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Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon.
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These are really tough problems, and we don't have an answer we can hand you in a cookbook.
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We've got to get a vaccine supply that we can count on. We've got to get more and better antiviral drugs. And we've got to have every single link in our public health system as strong as it can be so we can detect this problem and do the things at the local community level that we need to do to save lives.
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We will do everything we can to help quench it at its source.
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