Battle to fight Covid-19

Inserted 2 years ago

“People will need to be ready to adjust when the next variant comes along. You need to recognize that at certain times, it's going to be safer to do things than at other times.”

Chief executive of Resolve to Save Lives, a global public health initiative, and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

17 Dec 2021 3 3

Amesh Adalja

Inserted 2 years ago

“There's always going to be a baseline number of COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths. A lot of people haven't come to terms with that.”

Reuters

Infectious disease expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

17 Dec 2021 3 2

Angela Rasmussen

Inserted 2 years ago

“People are sick of the pandemic and God knows I am, but unless we can get some urgency to compel our leaders to take action, I really see 2022 being a lot of more of the same that we saw in 2021.”

Reuters

Virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada

17 Dec 2021 2 3

Hans Kluge

Inserted 2 years ago

“As school holidays approach, we must also acknowledge that children contaminate their parents and grandparents at home. Those groups are 10 times more likely to develop severe disease, be hospitalised or - if unvaccinated - die. The use of mask and ventilation and regular testing should be a standard at all primary schools. And vaccinating children should be discussed and considered nationally as part of school protection measures. Vaccination of younger children not only reduces their role in Covid-19 transmission, but also protects them from paediatric severity whether associated with long Covid or multi-system, inflammatory syndromes.”

Theguardian

WHO’s regional director for Europe

07 Dec 2021 8 2

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 2 years ago

“If you're asking me what my personal position is, two or three years ago, I would never have thought to witness what we see right now that we have this horrible pandemic. We have the vaccines, the life-saving vaccines, but they are not being used adequately everywhere. And this costs … This is an enormous health cost coming along. If you look at the numbers, we have now 77% of the adults in the European Union vaccinated or if you take the whole population, it's 66%. And this means one-third of the European population is not vaccinated. These are 150 million people. This is a lot, and not each and every one can be vaccinated - children, for example, or people with special medical conditions - but the vast majority could and therefore, I think it is understandable and appropriate to lead this discussion now. How we can encourage and potentially think about mandatory vaccination within the European Union, this needs discussion. This needs a common approach, but it is a discussion that I think has to be met.”

Theguardian

President of the European Commission

01 Dec 2021 6 5

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“I well understand the concern of all countries to protect their citizens against a variant that we don't yet fully understand. But I am equally concerned that several member states are introducing blunt, blanket measures that are not evidence-based or effective on their own, and which will only worsen inequities.”

Nytimes

Director-General of the World Health Organization

30 Nov 2021 3 3

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“The lack of a consistent and coherent global approach has resulted in a splintered and disjointed response, breeding misunderstanding, misinformation and mistrust.”

Nytimes

Director-General of WHO

29 Nov 2021 4 2

William Hanage

Inserted 2 years ago

“Omicron is certainly enough to take seriously, but it's not apocalyptic. It's not a magic virus. Magic viruses are not a thing.”

Nytimes

Epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

27 Nov 2021 4 3

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 2 years ago

“Flights will have to be suspended until we have a clear understanding about the danger posed by this new variant, and travelers returning from this region should respect strict quarantine rules.”

Koreatimes

President of the European Commission

26 Nov 2021 5 3

Githinji Gitahi

Inserted 2 years ago

“New variant Omicron, like Delta before, has spread; will spread. The world is literally a village. Travel restrictions against countries that report is punishing the messenger - reporting doesn't mean origin! To PROTECT the world, VACCINATE the World!”

Twitter

Chief Executive Officer of Amref Health Africa

26 Nov 2021 4 5

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“In many countries and communities, we are concerned about a false sense of security that vaccines have ended the pandemic, and that people who are vaccinated do not need to take any other precautions. Vaccines save lives, but they do not fully prevent transmission.”

Aljazeera

Director-General of the World Health Organization

24 Nov 2021 4 2

Zuzana Caputova

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's an unpopular measure, but absolutely unavoidable. Experts are clear. It's necessary to restrict people's mobility, we need a lockdown ... unfortunately, it's a measure that has to affect everyone.”

Apnews

President of Slovakia

23 Nov 2021 3 4

Richard Stutt

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think mask-wearing is, in many ways, one of the interventions that you probably want to relax last. Mask-wearing is very, very low cost in comparison to most other interventions.”

Nytimes

Infectious disease modeler at the University of Cambridge

20 Nov 2021 3 2

Linsey Marr

Inserted 2 years ago

“There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that masks help slow transmission.”

Nytimes

Expert on virus transmission at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va

20 Nov 2021 4 2

Anne Rimoin

Inserted 2 years ago

“Cases are starting to rise again, and we have not yet conquered this virus. We may be tired of Covid and Covid restrictions and public health measures, but this virus is certainly not done with us yet.”

Nytimes

Epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles

20 Nov 2021 4 1

Mike Ryan

Inserted 2 years ago

“Quite frankly, some countries are in such a difficult situation now that they're going to find it hard not to put in place restrictive measures at least for a short period of time to reduce the intensity of transmission. Other countries can re-engage with communities around masks, around avoiding crowded spaces, around limiting their contact with others, work from home and many other initiatives and very importantly increasing vaccine coverage in high-risk populations.”

Healthpolicy-watch

Head of WHO’s emergencies programme

12 Nov 2021 6 2

Linsey Marr

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's hard to know what's coming next with this virus. We thought we knew, but delta really surprised us. We thought the vaccine would help end this, but things are still dragging on. It's hard to know what's going to happen next.”

Apnews

Expert on virus transmission at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va

11 Nov 2021 3 3

Melissa Higdon

Inserted 2 years ago

“The main objective of the Covid vaccine is to prevent severe disease and death, and they are still doing a good job at that. With true declines in vaccine effectiveness, we'll likely see more cases overall.”

Nytimes

Faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

11 Nov 2021 2 3

Adam Finn

Inserted 2 years ago

“The vaccination programme by itself was not enough to bring things under control. We do need to have people using lateral flow tests, avoiding contact with large numbers of people in enclosed spaces, using masks, all of those things now need to happen if we're going to stop this rise and get things under control soon enough to stop a real meltdown in the middle of the winter.”

Bbc

Member of the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)

24 Oct 2021 1 2

Rachel Reeves

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think the first thing is the government have got to do more to make Plan A work. If the scientists are saying work from home and masks, we should do that. So get A working better because the vaccination programme has been stalling, and introduce those parts of Plan B. But there are also things not in A or B that need to be done, like paying statutory sick pay from day one and also better ventilation in public spaces.”

Bbc

British politician serving as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

24 Oct 2021 3 4

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“People will need to be ready to adjust when the next variant comes along. You need to recognize that at certain times, it's going to be safer to do things than at other times.”

“There's always going to be a baseline number of COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths. A lot of people haven't come to terms with that.”

“People are sick of the pandemic and God knows I am, but unless we can get some urgency to compel our leaders to take action, I really see 2022 being a lot of more of the same that we saw in 2021.”

“The lack of a consistent and coherent global approach has resulted in a splintered and disjointed response, breeding misunderstanding, misinformation and mistrust.”

“Omicron is certainly enough to take seriously, but it's not apocalyptic. It's not a magic virus. Magic viruses are not a thing.”

“Flights will have to be suspended until we have a clear understanding about the danger posed by this new variant, and travelers returning from this region should respect strict quarantine rules.”

“New variant Omicron, like Delta before, has spread; will spread. The world is literally a village. Travel restrictions against countries that report is punishing the messenger - reporting doesn't mean origin! To PROTECT the world, VACCINATE the World!”

“In many countries and communities, we are concerned about a false sense of security that vaccines have ended the pandemic, and that people who are vaccinated do not need to take any other precautions. Vaccines save lives, but they do not fully prevent transmission.”

“It's an unpopular measure, but absolutely unavoidable. Experts are clear. It's necessary to restrict people's mobility, we need a lockdown ... unfortunately, it's a measure that has to affect everyone.”

“I think mask-wearing is, in many ways, one of the interventions that you probably want to relax last. Mask-wearing is very, very low cost in comparison to most other interventions.”

“There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that masks help slow transmission.”

“Cases are starting to rise again, and we have not yet conquered this virus. We may be tired of Covid and Covid restrictions and public health measures, but this virus is certainly not done with us yet.”

“It's hard to know what's coming next with this virus. We thought we knew, but delta really surprised us. We thought the vaccine would help end this, but things are still dragging on. It's hard to know what's going to happen next.”

“The main objective of the Covid vaccine is to prevent severe disease and death, and they are still doing a good job at that. With true declines in vaccine effectiveness, we'll likely see more cases overall.”

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