Paul A. Offit Quotes

14 quotes in 231 categories

• Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer.…
• Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.
• What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar…
• For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been…
• Your child can die from chickenpox.
• Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.
• Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.
• Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.
• Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.
• If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.
• The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.
• When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer in a sterile…
• One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.
• People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

Browse Paul A. Offit Quotes by Category