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

I think that people's resistance to vaccination isn't going to disappear until we address some of the nonmedical reasons for that resistance and people's discomfort and distrust of the government. That's bigger than what most medical professionals can handle.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.

We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in our modern medicine that we've been using that long, and it's been consistently productive even though, you know, the older vaccines were much more dangerous than vaccines we're using now.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

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