Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Paul A. Offit

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Paul A. Offit.

Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, former chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992–2014), and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Offit is a board member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation (ASF).

American - Scientist | Born: March 27, 1951

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

Paul A. Offit

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

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

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

Paul A. Offit

When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.

Paul A. Offit

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

Paul A. Offit

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

Paul A. Offit

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

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Paul A. Offit

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

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

Your child can die from chickenpox.

Paul A. Offit

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

Paul A. Offit

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

Paul A. Offit

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. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

Paul A. Offit

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Paul A. Offit

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