Ipse by Tag - Coronavirus

John Swartzberg

Inserted 2 years ago

“The irony is that things got so good in May and most of June that all of us, including me, were talking about the end game. We started to enjoy life again. Within a very few weeks, it all came crashing down.”

Nytimes

Infectious disease specialist at the University of California, Berkeley

05 Sep 2021 2 1

Howard Njoo

Inserted 2 years ago

“If we continue on the path we are on now since reopening, we could expect to see a continued sharp increase in cases ... reaching levels not seen before in Canada during the pandemic.”

Cbc

Deputy Chief Public Health Officer at Public Health Agency of Canada

03 Sep 2021 3 2

Theresa Tam

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is a crucial moment. We have a window of opportunity to rapidly accelerate vaccine uptake and close the protection gap in younger age groups with the lowest vaccine coverage. There's no magic number [vaccination rate] except to say reach for the stars. I have a 100 per cent mark on that graph. That's where people should be aiming toward as much as possible. I believe that we can accelerate and I know that provinces are pulling all stops in different ways. While that is being rapidly analyzed, I would ask for caution and patience for a booster dose for the rest of the population because we haven't seen enough data, and based on the information we have at hand in Canada we're not seeing a lot of breakthrough infections.”

Cbc

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer

03 Sep 2021 5 4

Won Joo

Inserted 2 years ago

“The fact that the two economic indicators [Industrial output - Retail sales] jointly went downhill again, as in May, suggests that the fourth wave of the coronavirus has begun to undermine the economic recovery.”

Koreatimes

Deputy director of the Hyundai Research Institute

31 Aug 2021 5 3

Allison McGeer

Inserted 2 years ago

“Firstly, they [the unvaccinated] pose a direct risk of transmission, and while the vaccine is very effective at protecting you from serious illness and death - it's not 100 per cent. Nothing in life is 100 per cent. The second thing that unvaccinated people do is they increase the spread of coronavirus in the population. So if you release restrictions, unvaccinated people contribute substantially more to the growth of transmission in the community.”

Cbc

Medical microbiologist and infectious disease specialist at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital

28 Aug 2021 4 2

Yasutoshi Nishimura

Inserted 2 years ago

“Critical cases have spiked suddenly and the medical system is in an extremely dire state.”

Aljazeera

Japan's Economy Minister

25 Aug 2021 2 2

Ebrahim Raisi

Inserted 2 years ago

“The government's first priority is controlling the coronavirus, improving the health situation, and widespread vaccination. The economy and the livelihood situation is the second.”

Rferl

President of Iran

21 Aug 2021 1 3

Kim Yoon

Inserted 2 years ago

“The average fatality rate of COVID-19 patients was previously 0.98 percent, but in line with the vaccine rollout, the figure fell to 0.18 percent last month, similar to that of the seasonal flu. We might look for possible ways to control the coronavirus similar to the flu. The government should stop counting the number of daily new infections, as this figure should not be the threshold for determining the level of the social distancing measures. Instead, quarantine resources should be poured into strengthening Korea's medical capacity for treating critically ill COVID-19 patients.”

Koreatimes

Professor of health policy and management at Seoul National University

20 Aug 2021 2 3

Moon Jae-in

Inserted 2 years ago

“When it comes to the COVID-19 crisis - compared to any other advanced nation - our country is overcoming it in a stable manner. We will also surely prevail over this fourth wave fueled by the spread of the Delta variant. The inoculations are also approaching their target. In October, 70 percent of the total population will have received their second shots, and vaccination rate targets will be raised once more.”

Koreatimes

President of South Korea

15 Aug 2021 5 3

Jacinda Ardern

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're simply not in a position to fully reopen just yet. When we move, we will be careful and deliberate, because we want to move with confidence and with as much certainty as possible.”

Taipeitimes

New Zealand Prime Minister

12 Aug 2021 2 2

Moon Jae-in

Inserted 2 years ago

“Thanks to the policies, we could successfully cope with COVID-19 prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and all other areas related to infectious diseases. The health insurance system has played the role of final defense in the country's battle against the pandemic.”

Koreatimes

President of South Korea

12 Aug 2021 2 2

Rochelle Walensky

Inserted 2 years ago

“Our models show that if we don't [vaccinate people], we could be up to several hundred thousand cases a day, similar to our surge in early January.”

Aljazeera

Head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

07 Aug 2021 3 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

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant. But we cannot accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it. We need an urgent reversal from the majority of vaccines going to high-income countries to the majority going to low-income countries.”

Reuters

Director-General of the World Health Organization

04 Aug 2021 7 3

Rochelle Walensky

Inserted 2 years ago

“High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus.”

Reuters

Head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

30 Jul 2021 5 2

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're going in the wrong direction. If you look at the inflection of the curve of new infections… it is among the unvaccinated and since we have 50 percent of the country is not fully vaccinated, that's a problem - particularly when you have a variant like Delta which has this extraordinary characteristic of being able to spread very efficiently and very easily from person to person. If you are vaccinated, the vaccine is highly protective against the Delta variant, particularly against severe disease leading to hospitalisation and sometimes ultimately to death. It's really an outbreak among the unvaccinated … which is the reason why we're out there practically pleading with the unvaccinated people to go out and get vaccinated.”

Aljazeera

Top US infectious disease expert

25 Jul 2021 4 4

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

Chris Whitty

Inserted 2 years ago

“I don't think we should underestimate the fact that we could get into trouble again surprisingly fast. I think saying the numbers in hospital are low now, that does not mean the numbers will be low in hospital in five, six, seven, eight weeks' time. They could actually be really quite serious. We've still got 2,000 people in hospital and that number is increasing. If we double from 2,000 to 4,000 from 4,000 to 8,000, 8,000 and so on it doesn't take many doubling times until you're in very, very large numbers indeed.”

Bbc

England’s Chief Medical Officer

15 Jul 2021 2 4

Young-rae Sohn

Inserted 2 years ago

“We judged that there was no need to worry too much about the Delta variant as its infection rate was very low at the time. Looking back at the situation in June, we should have been more active in trying to control the variant.”

Koreatimes

Senior official from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea

14 Jul 2021 4 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

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“The irony is that things got so good in May and most of June that all of us, including me, were talking about the end game. We started to enjoy life again. Within a very few weeks, it all came crashing down.”

“If we continue on the path we are on now since reopening, we could expect to see a continued sharp increase in cases ... reaching levels not seen before in Canada during the pandemic.”

“The fact that the two economic indicators [Industrial output - Retail sales] jointly went downhill again, as in May, suggests that the fourth wave of the coronavirus has begun to undermine the economic recovery.”

“Critical cases have spiked suddenly and the medical system is in an extremely dire state.”

“The government's first priority is controlling the coronavirus, improving the health situation, and widespread vaccination. The economy and the livelihood situation is the second.”

“We're simply not in a position to fully reopen just yet. When we move, we will be careful and deliberate, because we want to move with confidence and with as much certainty as possible.”

“Thanks to the policies, we could successfully cope with COVID-19 prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and all other areas related to infectious diseases. The health insurance system has played the role of final defense in the country's battle against the pandemic.”

“Our models show that if we don't [vaccinate people], we could be up to several hundred thousand cases a day, similar to our surge in early January.”

“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.”

“High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus.”

“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 judged that there was no need to worry too much about the Delta variant as its infection rate was very low at the time. Looking back at the situation in June, we should have been more active in trying to control the variant.”

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