“If the wall is 100 feet, people will jump off a 100-foot wall.” — Vishal Bansal, MD, of Scripps Mercy in San Diego, on serious falls at higher border walls that are filling up trauma services.
“We need an ‘Operation Warp Speed’ for long COVID, and we shouldn’t settle for anything less.” — Diana Berrent, founder of Survivor Corps, following the announcement of the Biden administration’s long COVID plan.
“It would have taken some effort to not be vaccinated against polio.” — Amesh Adalja, MD, of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, on whether or not most people in the U.S. are protected against polio.
“This is not typical of the gay male population.” — Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, of University of California San Francisco, on the higher-than-expected prevalence of HIV in men presenting with monkeypox.
“I’m pouring in this nutrition product that you don’t know exactly where it’s come from, or whether or not it might be contaminated with other products.” — Charles Pedlar, PhD, of St Mary’s University Twickenham in London, on the growing popularity of unproven IV nutrition product use among athletes.
“She hasn’t said anything that’s out of line. Even if she had, it wasn’t malicious, and we believe in strong scientific debate.” — Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director of the American Public Health Association, on a heavily criticized petition to cut Leana Wen, MD, as a speaker at this year’s meeting.
“I’m not entirely sure if it would change clinical practice at the moment, at least in the U.S.” — Allen Kamrava, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, on a study that found a risk-adapted screening approach for colon cancer was about as good as a one-time colonoscopy or annual fecal immunochemical testing.