With every new disease, the most severe cases come to initial attention, and then as we look harder, we see milder cases.
It's become one of the dominant infections of childhood.
It's always an uncertainty. We're always at the infectious disease roulette table.
We will be staying home, concerts won't be going on. We might close schools in some communities.
This is a much larger outbreak than any of us anticipated. Maybe the immunity generated by the mumps vaccine can wane and then you become newly susceptible, particularly if you encounter a large dose of virus.
People are trying to work out contingency plans to make sure there's a more equitable distribution. I'm sure it will never be perfect, but without work now, it'll certainly be chaotic later.
I know we have one at home. In reading this, I frankly was reminded that we ought to update it.
We have to hold on to this vaccine and work on a new vaccine.
We cannot let our guard down, because a series of genetic changes could happen at any time that could allow this virus to pick up the capacity to move from person to person.
Stopping smoking is something I think I would have put right at the top of the list.
