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CDC
DIRECTOR, LEADING INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERTS
SOUND ALARM ABOUT COMPLACENCY AS INFLUENZA SEASON NEARS
Many
More Flu-Linked Deaths Than Thought;
Vaccination Rates Among High-Risk Fall Short of Healthy People 2010 Goals
PRESS
CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
Tuesday,
September 23, 2003
10:00am – 11:00am EASTERN TIME
PRESS
RELEASE
Health Officials Sound Alarm Over Public Complacency About Immunization As
Influenza Season Nears
FACTS ABOUT INFLUENZA
FACTS ABOUT PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE
STATE-BY-STATE
INFLUENZA AND PNEUMOCOCCAL
VACCINATION RATES – Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Prevalence
Data
BIOGRAPHY:
JULIE L. GERBERDING, MD, MPH
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
BIOGRAPHY:
NANCY COX, PHD
Chief, Influenza Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
BIOGRAPHY:
KRISTIN NICHOL, MD, MPH
National Coalition for Adult Immunization (NCAI) & Chief of Medicine,
Minneapolis VA Medical Center
BIOGRAPHY:
DONALD PALMISANO, MD, JD
President, American Medical Association (AMA)
BIOGRAPHY:
WILLIAM ROGERS, MD, FACEP
Medical Officer, Office of Administration, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
BIOGRAPHY:
WILLIAM SCHAFFNER, MD
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) & Professor and Chairman,
Department of Preventive Medicine,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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