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

- Laurie Garrett

In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease d…

- Laurie Garrett

[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becomin…

- Laurie Garrett

All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, …

- Laurie Garrett

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Eb…

- Laurie Garrett

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

- Laurie Garrett

Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows …

- Laurie Garrett

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an optio…

- Laurie Garrett

Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, p…

- Laurie Garrett