Julie Gerberding Vaccine Quotations

We're asking those who provide influenza to give the first available doses to people in our priority groups ... Getting an influenza vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your patients against this disease,

We might actually end up with the most-ever influenza vaccine produced in this country,

More than 180 million people should get (flu) vaccine and we have never gotten anywhere near close to that,

People who place large orders for vaccine tend to get preferential treatment by distributors. This is a market distribution problem that's difficult to fix from a government perspective.

My own mother called me this week because her doctor told her that the vaccine was not available,

Well, we're just at the beginning of the flu season, so we can't predict whether this is going to be a serious year or not, ... We have 20 million more doses of flu vaccine to get out there, and our goal is to get those doses to the people who need it the most before the season really speeds up.

There will be some people who may not be able to get vaccine who really need it.

That's a good thing because it gives us time to get the vaccine out there.