MedPage Today April 28, 2024
— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today‘s reporters
“That’s a society-ending pandemic.” — James Lawler, MD, MPH, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Global Center for Health Security, on viruses with high case fatality rates and the unknown risks of the H5N1 avian flu.
“They’re looking for needles in haystacks.” — William Schaffner, MD, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, discussing possible seizure risk following COVID-19 vaccination in kids.
“We believe that kind of less is more.” — Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, differentiating his team’s recent living pig kidney transplant from the world’s first performed last month.
“It is a band-aid solution to the wicked problem of misinformation.” — Becky Smullin Dawson, MPH, PhD,...