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  • Daoud Kuttab
    Daoud Kuttab “Throughout this Israeli war on Gaza, there hasn't been a warning publicly made by the US that Israel has heeded. It is indeed unclear to what extent such warnings are just optics of putting pressure on the Israeli government while continuing to support its every move. In this sense, one should take with a grain of salt reports that the Biden administration is holding off one shipment of weapons to Israel to pressure it into halting the full-scale invasion of Rafah.” 4 hours ago
  • Bernie Sanders
    Bernie Sanders “The US must now use ALL its leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, the end of the attacks on Rafah, and the immediate delivery of massive amounts of humanitarian aid to people living in desperation. Our leverage is clear. Over the years, the United States has provided tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Israel.” 5 hours ago
  • Lloyd Austin
    Lloyd Austin “We've been very clear … from the very beginning that Israel shouldn't launch a major attack into Rafah without accounting for and protecting the civilians that are in that battlespace. We've not made a final determination on how to proceed with that shipment [of weapons].” 5 hours ago
  • Vuk Vuksanović
    Vuk Vuksanović “This visit [Xi Jinping in Belgrade] shows that Serbia has exchanged Russia for China went it comes to its main partner to bargain with the West. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine placed the Serbo-Russian relationship under close monitoring, so the government sees a benefit in playing the Chinese card more often now since it's deemed to be less provocative. The Balkans, and Serbia in particular, have become even more interesting for China now that one branch of the Belt and Road Initiative through Russia and Belarus was effectively cut off with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” 6 hours ago
  • Aleksandar Vucic
    Aleksandar Vucic “I told him [Xi Jinping] that as the leader of a great power he will be met with respect all over the world, but the reverence and love he encounters in our Serbia will not be found anywhere else. When it comes to cooperation with Beijing, the sky is the limit.” 6 hours ago
  • Catherine Russell
    Catherine Russell “Rafah is now a city of children, who have nowhere safe to go in Gaza. If large-scale military operations start, not only will children be at risk from the violence, but also from chaos and panic, and at a time where their physical and mental states are already weakened.” 10 hours ago
  • Hani Mahmoud
    Hani Mahmoud “You cannot create a safe zone in a war zone. Every time people move from one place to another, they are in search of basic needs and … necessities that are becoming very hard to find right now.” 10 hours ago
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#Delta

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William Hanage
William Hanage

“Even if Omicron were half as virulent as Delta, but infected four times as many people, twice as fast, that's still a wrecking ball aimed at a teetering healthcare system. The NHS is already seeing staff shortages from illness and quarantine, and weighing the possibility of reducing or cancelling services.”

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Epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
05 Jan 2022 5 2
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

“I'm highly concerned that omicron, being more transmissible (and) circulating at the same time as delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases. That will put immense pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems of the brink of collapse. I still remain optimistic that this can be the year we can not only end the acute stage of the pandemic, but we also chart a path to stronger health security.”

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Director-General of the World Health Organization
29 Dec 2021 6 2
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Robert Wachter
Robert Wachter

“The lower hospitalization rate is likely due to two things: greater immunity among the public from vaccines and prior coronavirus infection, and that omicron might be slightly less severe than delta. Vaccines don't stop infections with omicron, but they do reduce the risk of hospitalization by about 70% - with a booster shot, that figure is even higher. If you're a person who has no immunity at all, no vaccination and no prior infection or your prior infection was a year and a half ago and it was mild, you're not out of the woods. There is a reasonable chance that you will get very sick with omicron.”

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Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco
27 Dec 2021 9 3
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Raywat Deonandan
Raywat Deonandan

“We have data out of the UK that suggests that there may be an intrinsic mildness to Omicron as compared to Delta but it's not by a lot, and the hyper contagiousness of Omicron means that even that mildness probably won't protect the health care system. So that is why we have to curtail transmission as much as we can. A tiny fraction of a large number, is still going to be a very large number.”

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Epidemiologist and Science Communicator specializing in Global Health
24 Dec 2021 6 3
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Maria Van Kerkhove
Maria Van Kerkhove

“Less than 0.1% each of the sequences uploaded to platforms like GISAID have been Alpha, Beta and Gamma. 96% of the sequences available are still Delta. About 1.6% of sequences that have been shared in recent weeks is Omicron. We definitely see increasing growth rates of Omicron where it's been detected and it's now been reported in more than 106 countries to date. There is a combination of factors that we think are leading to this increasing transmission. First are the mutations that are identified in the Omicron variant and we know something about these mutations because some of these are present in other variants of concern. So, for example, in Omicron there are mutations that allow the virus to adhere to the cell more easily and infect the cell more easily. We also see immune escape where we see increasing rates of reinfection. And then there is some preliminary data that's looking at the efficiency and replication of the Omicron variant in the upper respiratory tract as opposed to the lower respiratory tract in the lungs. So this combination of factors is likely leading to why we are seeing increased growth rates in a number of countries.”

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World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist
22 Dec 2021 14 2
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Matthew Binnicker
Matthew Binnicker

“It's important to emphasize that if omicron has a much higher transmission rate compared to delta, the absolute number of people requiring hospitalization might still increase, despite less severe disease in most cases.”

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Director of clinical virology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
22 Dec 2021 4 2
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Michael Osterholm
Michael Osterholm

“I think we're really just about to experience a viral blizzard. I think in the next three to eight weeks, we're going to see millions of Americans are going to be infected with this virus, and that will be overlaid on top of delta, and we're not yet sure exactly how that's going to work out. What you have here right now is a potential perfect storm. I've been very concerned about the fact that we could easily see a quarter or a third of our health care workers quickly becoming cases themselves.”

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American epidemiologist, Regents Professor, and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
17 Dec 2021 5 3
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Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci

“Besides the toll of suffering and death which will inevitably go up if in fact we have that convergence in the winter months of flu and omicron and delta, we could get our hospital systems overwhelmed. With omicron breathing down our back, things could get really bad, particularly for the unvaccinated. The vaccinated and those who are boosted I believe will be relatively well protected, at least against severe disease.”

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Top US infectious disease expert
16 Dec 2021 6 5
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Jeremy Kamil
Jeremy Kamil

“These authors found Omicron replicates fantastically well - even far better than either Delta or the original virus - in bronchial tissue. This could in some ways contribute to an advantage in spread/transmission between people. Of course, a huge component of Omicron's transmissibility in real life is going to be its potential to escape neutralising antibodies that protect against infect in the first place. It's very likely spreading well even between vaccinated people, especially those who haven't recently gotten a booster shot.”

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Associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport
15 Dec 2021 8 3
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Mike Ryan
Mike Ryan

“Data indicates the variant is efficiently transmitting, and probably more efficiently transmitting even than the Delta variant. That does not mean that the virus is unstoppable. But it means the virus is more efficient at transmitting between human beings. And, therefore, we have to redouble our efforts to break those chains of transmission to protect ourselves to protect others.”

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Head of WHO’s emergencies programme
08 Dec 2021 6 2
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Maria Van Kerkhove
Maria Van Kerkhove

“Even if we have a large number of cases that are mild, some of those individuals will need hospitalisations. They will need to go into ICU and some people will die… We don't want to see that happen on top of an already difficult situation with Delta circulating globally.”

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World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist
05 Dec 2021 4 2
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Stephen Hoge
Stephen Hoge

“I think that there's a real risk that we're going to see a decrease in effectiveness of the vaccines. What I don't know is how substantial that is. Is it going to be the kind of thing that we saw with the Delta variant, which is, ultimately vaccines were still effective, or are we going to see something like a 50 percent decrease in efficacy, which would mean we need to reboot the vaccines.”

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Moderna's president
05 Dec 2021 4 3
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Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci

“Though it's too early to really make any definitive statements about it, thus far it does not look like there's a great degree of severity to it. Thus far, the signals are a bit encouraging. But we have really got to be careful before we make any determinations that it is less severe, or it really doesn't cause any severe illness, comparable to Delta.”

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Top US infectious disease expert
05 Dec 2021 3 2
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Soumya Swaminathan
Soumya Swaminathan

“How worried should we be? We need to be prepared and cautious, not panic, because we're in a different situation to a year ago. Delta accounts for 99 percent of infections around the world. This variant would have to be more transmissible to outcompete and become dominant worldwide. It is possible, but it's not possible to predict. We need to wait, let's hope it's milder … but it's too early to conclude about the variant as a whole.”

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World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist
03 Dec 2021 6 2
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Jacob Lee
Jacob Lee

“In a situation where we have to contain the spread of infection caused by the Delta variant, if infections with the Omicron variant begin, it is highly likely that it will add fuel to the fire. The inflow of the Omicron variant from overseas should be blocked as much as possible, but it is not enough. Korea's medical system in the community should be reorganized to a level that can handle the variant if it becomes dominant.”

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Professor of infectious disease at Hallym University Medical Center
02 Dec 2021 4 2
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Stephane Bancel
Stephane Bancel

“There is no world, I think, where [the effectiveness] is the same level … we had with Delta. I think it's going to be a material drop. I just don't know how much because we need to wait for the data. But all the scientists I've talked to … are like 'this is not going to be good'.”

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Chief Executive Officer of Moderna Therapeutics
30 Nov 2021 4 3
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Githinji Gitahi
Githinji Gitahi

“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!”

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Chief Executive Officer of Amref Health Africa
26 Nov 2021 4 5
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Jens Spahn
Jens Spahn

“By the end of this winter pretty much everyone in Germany ... will have been vaccinated, recovered or died. With the highly contagious delta variant this is very, very likely and that's why we are recommending vaccination so urgently.”

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German Health Minister
22 Nov 2021 7 2
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