We now know that these reservoirs are established very early in the course of infection.

There's a lot of good news, but there's also some very sobering aspects of this that really must prompt us to continue to try and find newer drugs that are as potent or more potent with considerably less toxicity.

I don't think that the resources of the western European countries are going to implode because of this. But you see disaster striking, economically and otherwise, when you get into countries such as in Africa and other developing nations in which they don't have the resources to handle this.

There's a lot of good news, but there's also some very sobering aspects of this that really must prompt us to continue to try and find newer drugs that are as potent or more potent with considerably less toxicity,

Vaccines, if they can blunt that initial, enormous burst of virus production early on, even if it doesn't prevent initial infection, may dramatically alter the course of infection,

There are some states that are having now that kind of activity that we didn't see in October, November, December, which tells us what we already know -- that the season is not over. Certainly, the early part of the season was relatively light, much to our great advantage in light of the [vaccine] shortage.