What People are saying About the Initiative
The Initiative has worked formally and informally with many key stakeholders - manufacturers, distributors, clinicians, federal agencies, and professional associations - to ensure that we accurately and transparently present the educational tools, voluntary business standards, and resources provided through this Web site.
SUPPORTERS
- National Influenza Vaccine Summit (Executive Committee)
The Summit is a joint effort of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association.
What people are saying about distribution...
Some people have thought that if you were a small purchaser, you automatically go back to the end of the line of the distributors. That's not the case. They have a fair process for making decisions about who gets vaccine when. But if it's not coming out of the factory they can't distribute it. And that's just one of those things that until we have an even more robust supply we'll always have this mismatch during the early part of the season."
--DR. JULIE GERBERDING, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Oct. 4, NFID Press Conference)
"I do think it's much better this year than last year based on two things. One is a supply that is bigger. And two, on a system of collaboration between the distributors and the provider community that was worked out in collaboration with the Vaccine Summit, which is a group of vaccine stakeholders including manufacturers, distributors, users and the AMA and the CDC and the medical community.
--DR. JULIE GERBERDING, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Oct. 4, NFID Press Conference)
"The distributors and the vaccine manufacturers have been very open in communicating with the CDC and with others who are interested in using the vaccine how things are going and how the distribution system is working.
"...With so much vaccine in the system coming on, everyone ought to be able to get as much vaccine as they would like during this immunization season."
--DR. WILLIAM SCHAFFNER, Vice President of The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and Infectious Diseases Physician and Chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. (Oct. 4, NFID Press Conference)
