Paul Offit Quotes

#1. Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

Paul A. Offit

#2. Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

George Herbert

#3. If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

Paul A. Offit

#4. 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.

Paul A. Offit

#5. I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Deb Caletti

#6. Welcome your problems with open arms! Like any other game, the game of life is played as per your aptitude; the more expert you are, the more difficult it gets. Embrace the problems and hardships that come your way, for you are the ones chosen to handle them.

Zeina

#7. In marriage, alliances and money rightly weigh at least as much as attractiveness and beauty.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. 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.

Paul A. Offit

#9. People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

Paul A. Offit

#10. Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

Paul A. Offit

#11. And you wouldn't want to bring her home - at least not to entertain your guests or amuse the children. No, Juan Diego thought - you would want to keep her, all for yourself.

John Irving

#12. Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard

George Carlin

#13. One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

Paul A. Offit

#14. I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Paul A. Offit

#15. 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 mark.

Paul A. Offit

#16. The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Paul A. Offit

#17. 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 environment. Very quickly you have bacteria living on your skin, in your nose and throat.

Paul A. Offit

#18. Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Paul A. Offit

#19. The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time.

Steven Furtick

#20. Your child can die from chickenpox.

Paul A. Offit

#21. For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

Paul A. Offit

#22. Mother's love outlives everything

David Duke