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6 quotes by Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett (born 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is a Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist and writer of two bestselling books. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in Newsday, chronicling the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire.
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Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless... →

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What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between... →

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Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's... →

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At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

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'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally... →

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There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and... →

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