Vaccine Quotes

In spite of the tireless efforts of our scientist, it is possible that we may never find a successful coronavirus vaccine.

Imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community.

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism’s 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.

How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

GAVI works collaboratively with the private sector – from investment banks to vaccine suppliers to corporations to members of the Forbes 400 – to find new and better ways to raise and apply resources and broaden the base of participants in global health.

I support COVID-19 vaccine education and not a statewide mandate.

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

I don’t support vaccine passports. I don’t think it’s necessary and I don’t think it’s a good thing to do in America.

Sometimes I don’t even accept the simplest medical treatment, such as, for example, the anti-flu vaccine.

I view receiving the COVID-19 vaccine as part of my obligation to protect myself, members of my administration, and my family.

I have spent my entire career in vaccine development, in the government with CDC and BARDA and also in the biotechnology industry.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

I’m very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of lives, and people ought to be getting vaccinated.

Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses may have to give several, as diarrhoea makes it difficult for a child to retain anything.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

If everything is God‘s will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection – that would be very difficult – but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.

I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we’ll all continue to do that.

Covid is likely to persist once its pandemic phase has passed and circulate each winter alongside the flu. Even after more of us contract coronavirus infection and develop immunity to it or even after an effective vaccine arrives, some people will still get very sick.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you’re not going to want to keep it to yourself. You’re going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

It’s clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That’s why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.

There is no need to fear or have confusion about the Covid-19 vaccine.

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it’s a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was in many American vaccines until 2003. It was removed from many of the pediatric vaccines, but it was put in the flu vaccine, which is now given to 53 million Americans.

Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong.

My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body – just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future.

If a vaccine works, then the vaccinators might conceivably set up what’s known as ring vaccinations around Ebola hot spots. In this technique, medical workers simply vaccinate everybody in a ring, miles deep, around a focus of a virus.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we’d be lining up – wouldn’t we?

I would say, first of all, I want everyone to get the vaccine. Every opportunity I get, I stress that – my family is vaccinated. That is the best way for us to get on the other side of this pandemic. But you can’t mandate your way out of Covid-19.

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.