Immunization

If the vaccination rate drops by 10 percent, then everyone loses.

— Berit Lange, STIKO member and head of the Epidemiology Department at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), in an interview with FOCUS online, warning against delaying flu vaccination.

We are not sugarcoating the situation: it is serious.

— In a statement to a newspaper, Health State Secretary Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig (SPÖ) commented on the delivery problems of the Influvac influenza vaccine.

We expect the wave to hit earlier this year.

— Maria Paulke-Korinek, head of the Vaccination Department at the Ministry of Health, commenting on the anticipated COVID-19 wave and booster vaccination.

In this unsettled emotional state, I acquired a vaccination certificate instead of clarifying my open questions through the proper channels.

— Granit Xhaka, in an Instagram statement

Together, there could be a possibility they're quite lethal, Trump said of the combined shot, which has been in use for more than 50 years and has a strong safety and efficacy record.

— Trump said this about the combined MMR vaccine, in the context of his executive order to split the vaccine into three separate shots.

We are awaiting confirmation from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, but according to the initial investigations, the cause of death indeed appears to be diphtheria.

— Domenico Cipoll, medical director of Ospedale Civico in Palermo, stated this amid ongoing investigations into the death.

Together the vaccines could possibly be quite deadly.

— Donald Trump, during the White House signing ceremony for the decree on child vaccination policy about splitting the MMR vaccine into separate injections