“If the wall is 100 toes, individuals will bounce off a 100-foot wall.” — Vishal Bansal, MD, of Scripps Mercy in San Diego, on critical falls at higher border walls which might be filling up trauma companies.

“We’d like an ‘Operation Warp Velocity’ for lengthy COVID, and we should not accept something much less.” — Diana Berrent, founding father of Survivor Corps, following the announcement of the Biden administration’s long COVID plan.

“It could have taken some effort to not be vaccinated towards polio.” — Amesh Adalja, MD, of Johns Hopkins Heart for Well being Safety, on whether or not or not most individuals within the U.S. are protected against polio.

“This isn’t typical of the homosexual male inhabitants.” — Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, of College of California San Francisco, on the higher-than-expected prevalence of HIV in males presenting with monkeypox.

“I am pouring on this vitamin product that you do not know precisely the place it is come from, or whether or not or not it is likely to be contaminated with different merchandise.” — Charles Pedlar, PhD, of St Mary’s College Twickenham in London, on the rising recognition of unproven IV nutrition product use amongst athletes.

“She hasn’t stated something that is out of line. Even when she had, it wasn’t malicious, and we imagine in sturdy scientific debate.” — Georges Benjamin, MD, govt director of the American Public Well being Affiliation, on a heavily criticized petition to chop Leana Wen, MD, as a speaker at this yr’s assembly.

“I am not totally positive if it will change medical apply in the mean time, a minimum of within the U.S.” — Allen Kamrava, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Heart in Los Angeles, on a examine that discovered a risk-adapted screening approach for colon cancer was about pretty much as good as a one-time colonoscopy or annual fecal immunochemical testing.