Top 153 Vaccine Quotes & Sayings

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

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

You might be asking too much if you're looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. If you have one or two that cover the vast majority of isolates, I wouldn't be ashamed to call that a 'universal vaccine.'

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

I mean, how would you like to be fighting coronavirus in a socialist health care environment? A socialist system in which the manufacturers and creators of a vaccine would not be rewarded for their efforts? You think there'd be the same race to find a vaccine? No.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

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

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

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.

A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.

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.

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

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

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

Vaccine conspiracies, like so much modern cult conspiracy culture, perpetuates itself and lives on indefinitely thanks to the community-building and archiving of the Internet.

Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify.

When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I don't think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen severe, undesired side-effects of the BCG vaccine, the STIKO can no longer support the recommendation for this vaccination.

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.

Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.....The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.

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.

The best vaccine imaginable is only valuable to the extent we get it to everyone who needs it.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on.

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.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is one of the largest logistical undertakings our state has ever faced.

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

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

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.

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

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.

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.

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

There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against infection.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.

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

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

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.

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

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

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

We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates.

We continue to recommend flu vaccine as the single best way to protect yourself against the flu. The vaccine will protect against strains covered in the vaccine, and it may have some effectiveness in the drifted strains.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.

There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.