首页
登录
职称英语
READER’S DIGEST: What have been our biggest successes and failures? Kath
READER’S DIGEST: What have been our biggest successes and failures? Kath
游客
2024-10-17
64
管理
问题
READER’S DIGEST: What have been our biggest successes and failures?
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services: We went from identifying the virus to producing the first vaccine in less than six months. That’s pretty unheard of! We’ve been enormously successful at distributing the vaccine —over 60 million people have been vaccinated so far. With childhood vaccinations, we have 40,000 sites for distribution.
RD: We’ve all heard about healthy people who come down with H1N1 and are dead within a few days. Are you satisfied with the medical response to this disease?
KS: Well, the data is puzzling, and I think a bit troubling, in that we know that about a third of the kids who have been seriously ill or died do not have underlying health conditions. And it’s the same with 25-year-olds and up; we don’t still quite understand why those over 65 seem to have a lot of resistance to this particular virus. I think it’s going to take a while for the scientists to figure this out — what exactly is going on with this disease. While there have been some recent reports that the vast majority of cases have been relatively mild, what the scientists are quick to say is that the severe cases are more severe than many of them have ever seen. I mean, the penetration is more rapid, it’s more devastating, it fills the lungs. So, yes, it’s pretty mild most of the time, but when it’s bad it’s really bad. But what exactly it is that triggers that, we don’t know.
RD:What can be done about public mistrust of vaccines?
KS:There are groups out there that insist that vaccines are responsible for a variety of problems despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. We have reached out to media outlets to try to get them to not give the views of these people equal weight in their reporting to what science has shown and continues to show about the safety of vaccines.
RD: I’ll just close by asking if there’s something you would like to add.
KS: Well, knowing that this is going to be a February article, I think one of our challenges is to make sure that people understand that what we saw this fall was a second wave of HIN1. We have an opportunity to get out ahead of what easily could be a third wave. There are lot of scientists who feel that if we’re successful, if we continue the vaccination program into the new year and get as many people vaccinated as possible, we really might avert what various experts believe may be a more vicious strain in the later winter months when flu season is really underway. [br] It can be inferred from the passage that many people______._____.
选项
A、are reluctant to take the H1N1 vaccines due to safety concerns
B、distrust what’s reported in media
C、believe that vaccines can prevent them from catching the disease
D、want to be vaccinated as soon as possible
答案
A
解析
推断题。通读全文,可以发现在文末,KS开始呼吁通过这篇报道,引导大众正确地对待关于疫苗的信息,从反面印证了目前大众心中普遍存在的对疫苗安全性的担忧。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3804686.html
相关试题推荐
READER’SDIGEST:Whathavebeenourbiggestsuccessesandfailures?Kath
READER’SDIGEST:Whathavebeenourbiggestsuccessesandfailures?Kath
"Brazilhasbecomeoneofthedevelopingworld’sgreatsuccessesatreducin
"Brazilhasbecomeoneofthedevelopingworld’sgreatsuccessesatreducin
"Brazilhasbecomeoneofthedevelopingworld’sgreatsuccessesatreducin
"Brazilhasbecomeoneofthedevelopingworld’sgreatsuccessesatreducin
"Brazilhasbecomeoneofthedevelopingworld’sgreatsuccessesatreducin
______,thestoryappealstomanyadultreaders,too.A、Thoughforchildrenwrit
Accordingtothenews,whatisthebiggestproblemfacingtheworldthisyear?[
Accordingtothenews,whatisthebiggestproblemfacingtheworldthisyear?[
随机试题
Statusesaremarveloushumaninventionsthatenableustogetalongwithone
TheStateCouncilwilllaydownnewrulesthataimtomakemanagementcompatible
纳税人销售应税消费品收取的下列款项,应计入消费税计税依据的是()。A、集资款
流脑的流行季节是()A.全年散发,冬春季高发 B.全年散发,夏秋季高发
伞形基金又被称为( ),是指多个基金共用一个基金合同,子基金独立运作,并直接可
地球陆地上的淡水资源多数储存在()。A.冰川 B.地下 C..江河
下列有关胃肠间质瘤的描述,正确的有( )。A.肿瘤组织免疫组化检测CD117
求助者:男性,25岁,未婚,饭店服务员。 求助者自述:因感情问题而苦恼,伴有失
对一般人来说,大脑两半球的功能左右是()。 (A)对称的(B)不对称
安全生产监督机构以及安全生产监督人员应当经()考核合格。A.流域机构 B
最新回复
(
0
)