Second wave of Covid-19 pandemic

Inserted 3 years ago

“We missed the opportunity to prepare for the second wave of the coronavirus during the summer, even though we knew it was coming. We missed our chance to designate COVID-19 hospitals. Instead, now all the hospitals are bursting at the seams with coronavirus patients and we can’t respond to the rising patient load. There is no one to treat the patients ... Hospitals are very short of staff. The current coronavirus crisis made it painfully clear how dire the situation is.”

Head of the city-run hospital in Chirpan, a small town in southern Bulgaria, and chair of the Association of Municipal Hospitals

06 Dec 2020 2 4

David Nabarro

Inserted 3 years ago

“They missed building up the necessary infrastructure during the summer months, after they brought the first wave under the control. Now we have the second wave. If they don’t build the necessary infrastructure, we’ll have a third wave early next year.”

Reuters

World Health Organization (WHO) special COVID-19 envoy

21 Nov 2020 3 2

Vivek Murthy

Inserted 3 years ago

“We’re not in a place where we’re saying shut the whole country down. Right now the way we should be thinking about this is more like a series of restrictions that we dial up or down depending on how bad a spread is taking place in a specific region.”

Reuters

Former U.S. surgeon general and co-chair of president-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board

14 Nov 2020 2 3

Joe Biden

Inserted 3 years ago

“It’s clear that this vaccine, even if approved, will not be widely available for many months yet to come. We’re still facing a very dark winter.”

Aljazeera

President-elect of the United States

09 Nov 2020 1 6

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Inserted 3 years ago

“We must stop this wave. I chose once again to take drastic measures sooner rather than later. It could be the case that the measures would have worked, but if they didn’t, then in 15 days the pressure that would have been exerted on the health system would be unbearable. That is something that, I will say it again, I can in no way allow.”

Apnews

Greek Prime Minister

05 Nov 2020 2 3

Alexey Raksha

Inserted 3 years ago

“It’s much worse than in the first months. I’m expecting huge excess mortality in October and unprecedented in November.”

Theguardian

Independent demographer who previously worked for the government statistics agency Rosstat

01 Nov 2020 2 3

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 3 years ago

“We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation. All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”

Theguardian

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

31 Oct 2020 2 2

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Inserted 3 years ago

“It seems that we failed to tame the complacency from the collective success of the first phase. If the measures work, we will be able, in early December, to live in a smoother environment.”

Politico

Greek Prime Minister

31 Oct 2020 2 3

Jens Spahn

Inserted 3 years ago

“Given the very dynamic situation in all of Europe, we need to equally reduce contact in almost all European countries.”

Reuters

German Health Minister

30 Oct 2020 3 3

Charles Michel

Inserted 3 years ago

“Within the space of just a few weeks, the situation has escalated from worrying to alarming. Now we must avoid a tragedy. Until the anticipated vaccines start to be administered on a massive scale, the only way to contain the epidemic while maintaining activity is to identify infected persons at a very early stage so that they can self-isolate and avoid infecting others. At European level, this plan of action has not achieved the desired results.”

Politico

President of the European Council

27 Oct 2020 3 3

Giuseppe Conte

Inserted 3 years ago

“The primary objective is to regain control of the epidemiological curve to avoid that its steady rise can compromise the efficacy of our health sector, as well as the resilience of the social and economic system as a whole.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Italy

27 Oct 2020 0 4

Jean-François Delfraissy

Inserted 3 years ago

“There probably are more than 50,000 new cases every day. Our estimate at the Scientific Council is closer to 100,000 – twice as many. Between those who aren’t tested and asymptomatic patients, we’re close to that number of cases. This means the virus is spreading extremely fast.”

Apnews

President of the scientific council that advises the French government on the virus

26 Oct 2020 3 3

Jason Leitch

Inserted 3 years ago

“It's honestly too early to say. I'm worried first about Halloween and November the 5th – and then we may turn our minds to Christmas. I'm hopeful costs now may get us a more family Christmas – but Christmas is not going to be normal. There's actually no question about that. We are not going to be in large groupings with multiple families coming round – that is fiction for this year. But, I'm hopeful that if we can get the numbers down to a certain level, we may be able to get some form of normality. People should get their digital Christmas ready.”

Scotsman

Scotland's national clinical director

22 Oct 2020 2 3

Boris Johnson

Inserted 3 years ago

“We’re going for a balanced approach, a middle course between the Scylla of another national lockdown and the Charybdis of an uncontrolled virus. [This is] a regional and local approach now being followed by some of those countries most successful in tackling the virus.”

Politico

UK Prime Minister

22 Oct 2020 2 3

Hans Kluge

Inserted 3 years ago

“The evolving epidemiological situation in Europe raises great concern: daily cases are up, hospital admissions are up and Covid is now the fifth leading cause of deaths. We are recording two to three times more cases per day compared with April, but five times fewer deaths, and hospital admissions are taking two to three times longer to double. The pandemic today is not the pandemic yesterday – not only in terms of its transmission dynamic, but in the ways we are now equipped to face it.”

Theguardian

WHO’s regional director for Europe

15 Oct 2020 3 2

Helge Braun

Inserted 3 years ago

“We must be a bit stricter in places where infection chains spread mostly, which is parties and, unfortunately, also travel. We are at the beginning of a second wave and only the politicians’ and the population’s determination will decide whether or not we can avoid it, or slow it down.”

Reuters

German chancellor’s Angela Merkel chief of staff

11 Oct 2020 2 3

Justin Trudeau

Inserted 3 years ago

“We're at a tipping point in this pandemic. Not only is the second wave underway, yesterday we hit the highest daily recorded cases, well above what saw this spring. We flattened the curve before, we can do it again. We've seen tremendous variances in effectiveness of various measures and in population behaviors. Let's make no mistakes about it. The second wave is really frustrating for a whole bunch of people who've been through this spring and who don't want to see this happen right now. A whole bunch of us would love to see this simply go away, well it will only go away if we all do our part.”

Ctvnews

Prime Minister of Canada

09 Oct 2020 3 3

Boris Johnson

Inserted 3 years ago

“Let's be absolutely clear about what's happening in Europe, amongst some of our European friends — I'm afraid you are starting to see in some places the signs of a second wave of the pandemic. And we all remember what happened last time. It's absolutely vital, therefore, that we make the necessary preparations here in the U.K. as we are doing.”

Politico

UK Prime Minister

28 Jul 2020 3 3

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“They missed building up the necessary infrastructure during the summer months, after they brought the first wave under the control. Now we have the second wave. If they don’t build the necessary infrastructure, we’ll have a third wave early next year.”

“We’re not in a place where we’re saying shut the whole country down. Right now the way we should be thinking about this is more like a series of restrictions that we dial up or down depending on how bad a spread is taking place in a specific region.”

“It’s clear that this vaccine, even if approved, will not be widely available for many months yet to come. We’re still facing a very dark winter.”

“It’s much worse than in the first months. I’m expecting huge excess mortality in October and unprecedented in November.”

“We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation. All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”

“It seems that we failed to tame the complacency from the collective success of the first phase. If the measures work, we will be able, in early December, to live in a smoother environment.”

“Given the very dynamic situation in all of Europe, we need to equally reduce contact in almost all European countries.”

“The primary objective is to regain control of the epidemiological curve to avoid that its steady rise can compromise the efficacy of our health sector, as well as the resilience of the social and economic system as a whole.”

“There probably are more than 50,000 new cases every day. Our estimate at the Scientific Council is closer to 100,000 – twice as many. Between those who aren’t tested and asymptomatic patients, we’re close to that number of cases. This means the virus is spreading extremely fast.”

“We’re going for a balanced approach, a middle course between the Scylla of another national lockdown and the Charybdis of an uncontrolled virus. [This is] a regional and local approach now being followed by some of those countries most successful in tackling the virus.”

“We must be a bit stricter in places where infection chains spread mostly, which is parties and, unfortunately, also travel. We are at the beginning of a second wave and only the politicians’ and the population’s determination will decide whether or not we can avoid it, or slow it down.”

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