New variants of the coronavirus

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

Michael Head

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is one of the consequences of the inequity in vaccine rollouts and why the grabbing of surplus vaccines by richer countries will inevitably rebound on us all at some point.”

Koreatimes

Senior research fellow in global health at Britain's University of Southampton

27 Nov 2021 4 4

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

Gordon Brown

Inserted 2 years ago

“In the absence of mass vaccination, Covid is not only spreading uninhibited among unprotected people but is mutating, with new variants emerging out of the poorest countries and now threatening to unleash themselves on even fully vaccinated people in the richest countries of the world.”

Theguardian

Former Prime Minister of the UK and WHO ambassador for global health financing

26 Nov 2021 6 2

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

Christian Lindmeier

Inserted 2 years ago

“WHO recommends that countries continued to apply a risk-based and a scientific approach when implementing travel measures … implementing travel measures is being cautioned against. Researchers are working to understand more about the mutations and what they potentially mean for how transmissible or virulent this variant [B.1.1.529] is.”

Aljazeera

Spokesman for World Health Organization (WHO)

26 Nov 2021 7 3

Thomas Peacock

Inserted 2 years ago

“Worth emphasising this is at super low numbers right now in a region of Africa that is fairly well sampled, however it very very much should be monitored due to that horrific spike profile (would take a guess that this would be worse antigenically than nearly anything else about). A final observation - this variant contains not one, but two furin cleavage site mutations - P681H (seen in Alpha, Mu, some Gamma, B.1.1.318) combined with N679K (seen in C.1.2 amongst others) - this is the first time I've seen two of these mutations in a single variant.”

Twitter

Virologist at the Imperial College London

23 Nov 2021 13 1

Elin Hoffmann Dahl

Inserted 2 years ago

“The fact that we are vaccinating healthy adults with a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines is a short-sighted way of thinking. With the emergence of new variants, if we continue to leave the majority of the world unvaccinated, we will most definitely need adjusted vaccines in the future.”

Reuters

Infectious diseases medical adviser to Medecins Sans Frontieres' access campaign

04 Aug 2021 5 3

Antony Blinken

Inserted 2 years ago

“As long as this virus is out there anywhere, replicating, we're going to see more variants, and those variants are going to come back and bite us as we're already experiencing with Delta. As we are pursuing every effort to get every American vaccinated, we are also engaged in the world.”

Aljazeera

U.S. Secretary of State

23 Jul 2021 7 3

António Guterres

Inserted 2 years ago

“Vaccines offer a ray of hope - but most of the world is still in the shadows. The virus is outpacing vaccine distribution. This pandemic is clearly far from over; more than half its victims died this year. Many millions more are at risk if the virus is allowed to spread like wildfire. The more it spreads, the more variants we see - variants that are more transmissible, more deadly and more likely to undermine the effectiveness of current vaccines.”

Un

Secretary-general of the United Nations

07 Jul 2021 5 4

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Delta variant is dangerous and is continuing to evolve and mutate, which requires constant evaluation and careful adjustment of the public health response. Delta has been detected in at least 98 countries, and is spreading quickly in countries with low and high vaccination coverage. The world must equitably share protective gear, oxygen, tests, treatments and vaccines. By July next year, 70 percent of people in every country should be vaccinated. This is the best way to slow the pandemic, save lives and drive a truly global economic recovery, and along the way prevent further dangerous variants from getting the upper hand.”

Taipeitimes

Director-General of the World Health Organization

04 Jul 2021 2 4

Dame Sarah Gilbert

Inserted 2 years ago

“We have to balance what we think about vaccinating children in high-income countries with vaccinating the rest of the world, because we need to stop transmission of this virus globally. We're not completely out of the woods and that's why I'm very worried about getting vaccines around the rest of the world, because we need to stop the virus being transmitted and continuing to evolve. That could give us a new variant that is going to be really difficult to deal with.”

Taipeitimes

Oxford professor who led the team behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

04 Jul 2021 4 6

Abdool Karim

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're going to see more effective variants of the Delta and then we're going to move on to the next one. It's basically humans versus the virus and its variants. Right now, the virus is gaining the upper hand. It is able to keep one step ahead of us.”

Aljazeera

World-leading epidemiologist and former co-chair of South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19

29 Jun 2021 4 3

Nguyen Thanh Long

Inserted 2 years ago

“Vietnam has uncovered a new COVID-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK. That the new one is an Indian variant with mutations that originally belong to the UK variant is very dangerous.”

Reuters

Minister of Health of Vietnam

29 May 2021 3 3

Maria Van Kerkhove

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are classifying this as a variant of concern at a global level. There is some available information to suggest increased transmissibility.”

Reuters

World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist

11 May 2021 3 3

Eric Feigl-Ding

Inserted 3 years ago

“The P1 variant is serious. Brazil could also spin out new, even more dangerous variants. The more people infected with the virus, the more mutations we're going to see.”

Aljazeera

Epidemiologist, adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists

10 Apr 2021 5 3

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 3 years ago

“There is growing COVID fatigue among our citizens … But we should not let up now. Not only does the situation remain serious in many parts of Europe, but we must also watch for the new variants that are spreading.”

Aljazeera

President of the European Commission

25 Feb 2021 5 3

Brooke Nichols

Inserted 3 years ago

“Mutations occur much more frequently with RNA viruses because the RNA has no 'proofreading' capacity and, as such, cannot correct the mistakes that are made during viral replication. This can then become problematic when the virus then selects for mutations that allows for the virus to replicate more efficiently. For example, if a person has been previously infected, then the virus may select for mutations that can evade that previous immunity, or select for mutations that allow for the virus to be more transmissible. The variants do not appear to make the coronavirus disease more deadly. The variants do, however, make the virus more transmissible. This could mean that more people can become infected more rapidly - and thus still overburdening healthcare systems.”

Aljazeera

Assistant professor at the Boston University School of Public Health

07 Feb 2021 4 2

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 3 years ago

“Clearly, the mutants have a diminishing effect on the efficacy of the vaccines. We can see that we are going to be challenged. The best way to prevent further evolution of a virus is to prevent it from replicating and you do that by vaccinating people as quickly as you possibly can.”

Reuters

Head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

30 Jan 2021 4 3

Amesh Adalja

Inserted 3 years ago

“The end game is to stop death, to stop hospitals from going into crisis - and all of these vaccines, even including against the South African variant, seem to do that substantially.”

Reuters

Infectious disease expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

30 Jan 2021 4 3

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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.”

“This is one of the consequences of the inequity in vaccine rollouts and why the grabbing of surplus vaccines by richer countries will inevitably rebound on us all at some point.”

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

“In the absence of mass vaccination, Covid is not only spreading uninhibited among unprotected people but is mutating, with new variants emerging out of the poorest countries and now threatening to unleash themselves on even fully vaccinated people in the richest countries of the world.”

“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!”

“The fact that we are vaccinating healthy adults with a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines is a short-sighted way of thinking. With the emergence of new variants, if we continue to leave the majority of the world unvaccinated, we will most definitely need adjusted vaccines in the future.”

“As long as this virus is out there anywhere, replicating, we're going to see more variants, and those variants are going to come back and bite us as we're already experiencing with Delta. As we are pursuing every effort to get every American vaccinated, we are also engaged in the world.”

“We're going to see more effective variants of the Delta and then we're going to move on to the next one. It's basically humans versus the virus and its variants. Right now, the virus is gaining the upper hand. It is able to keep one step ahead of us.”

“Vietnam has uncovered a new COVID-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK. That the new one is an Indian variant with mutations that originally belong to the UK variant is very dangerous.”

“We are classifying this as a variant of concern at a global level. There is some available information to suggest increased transmissibility.”

“The P1 variant is serious. Brazil could also spin out new, even more dangerous variants. The more people infected with the virus, the more mutations we're going to see.”

“There is growing COVID fatigue among our citizens … But we should not let up now. Not only does the situation remain serious in many parts of Europe, but we must also watch for the new variants that are spreading.”

“Clearly, the mutants have a diminishing effect on the efficacy of the vaccines. We can see that we are going to be challenged. The best way to prevent further evolution of a virus is to prevent it from replicating and you do that by vaccinating people as quickly as you possibly can.”

“The end game is to stop death, to stop hospitals from going into crisis - and all of these vaccines, even including against the South African variant, seem to do that substantially.”

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