— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters

August 23, 2026

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"Maybe he's not the guy to go to, to get the best medical information." -- Paul Offit, MD, of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, responding to childhood immunization claims made by President Trump in a recent executive order on vaccines.

"I just don't know if it was ever a model that was going to work." -- David Fleischer, MD, of the University of Colorado Anschutz, on the discontinuation of the only FDA-approved oral immunotherapy for pediatric peanut allergies.