Ipse by Tag - Omicron

Cheong Seong-chang

Inserted 1 year ago

“So far, the North has reported one Omicron-related death, it is expected that the North will not accept aid from the outside world, especially the Western world, for a while. However, if the number of Omicron deaths soar, the North will have no option but to request China's assistance first, and then they may consider the Western world's aid if the situation gets out of control for the regime. Potential inter-Korean quarantine cooperation can help the two sides to lower military tensions and resume talks. South Korea may be able to provide a coronavirus-relief package to North Korea through China or other international organizations if it remains reluctant to receive help. Any inter-Korean cooperation in fighting COVID-19 will not be easy, because the South Korean government is now led by hawkish figures, who are describing North Korea's short range ballistic missile launch as a serious provocation.”

Koreatimes

Director of the Center for North Korean Studies at the Sejong Institute

13 May 2022 6 3

Kee Park

Inserted 1 year ago

“The country has been testing about 1,400 people each week, which is not nearly enough to survey 350,000 people with symptoms. What is more worrisome is the sheer number of symptomatic people. Using a conservative case fatality rate of 1% and assuming the surge is due to an Omicron variant of COVID-19, North Korea can expect 3,500 deaths from this outbreak.”

Reuters

Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

13 May 2022 6 1

Young-rae Son

Inserted 2 years ago

“The previous scheme is no longer realistic in light of our limited resources, and takes massive social and economic costs compared with our medical needs. The goal of our new Omicron response system is to minimise serious cases and deaths by focusing on diagnosing and treating high risk groups, and to prevent the saturation and collapse of our medical capacity.”

Reuters

South Korea health ministry spokesman

09 Feb 2022 3 3

Lam Carrie

Inserted 2 years ago

“The time has come for Hong Kong to take some tough measures. We are adopting stringent measures to protect Hong Kong. When vaccination rates increase, when Omicron disappears and when other things happen, we will revisit our strategy.”

Reuters

Chief Executive of Hong Kong

08 Feb 2022 4 4

Boris Pavlin

Inserted 2 years ago

“Based on data from Denmark, the first country where BA.2 overtook BA.1, there appears to be no difference in disease severity, although BA.2 has the potential to replace BA.1 globally. Looking at other countries where BA.2 is now overtaking, we're not seeing any higher bumps in hospitalization than expected. The subvariant is already becoming dominant in the Philippines, Nepal, Qatar, India and Denmark. Vaccination is profoundly protective against severe disease, including for Omicron. BA.2 is rapidly replacing BA.1. Its impact is unlikely to be substantial, although more data are needed.”

Reuters

WHO's COVID-19 Response Team

01 Feb 2022 9 4

Amesh Adalja

Inserted 2 years ago

“When you say that a disease [has] transitioned from epidemic to endemic, there are no hard and fast rules to determine that. Once COVID-19 loses that ability through enough immunity … I think the world is going to get to endemicity, but it's going to be on different timelines depending upon where you are at. I think that from the very first day in the COVID-19 pandemic, it was always going to be the case that this became an endemic respiratory virus. The main priority was to get more tools, like vaccines, antivirals, and monoclonal antibodies, that would help to reduce the strain on hospitals and health systems. Omicron has accelerated this process … we are basically at the cusp of endemicity and it may be the case that after Omicron surge washes over the countries of the world, we will be clearly in the endemic phase.”

Aljazeera

Infectious disease expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

29 Jan 2022 10 2

Vasily Vlasov

Inserted 2 years ago

“If we see that omicron cases [in Western countries] are generally mild, we need to remember that those are countries where most older people are vaccinated. I certainly wouldn't assume that everything will pass as easily here.”

Rferl

Russian epidemiologist

13 Jan 2022 4 3

David Naylor

Inserted 2 years ago

“Omicron is moving so quickly that it has become pretty much impossible to pin down the full extent of spread in real time. PCR testing capacity is overwhelmed. Rapid antigen tests [RAT] are inconsistently available. Those with positive RAT results often have no way to register them let alone confirm them.”

Cbc

Doctor who led the federal inquiry into Canada's national response to the 2003 SARS epidemic and now co-chairs the federal government's COVID-19 immunity task force

05 Jan 2022 5 3

William Hanage

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Theguardian

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

05 Jan 2022 5 2

Stephen Powis

Inserted 2 years ago

“We do not yet know exactly how many of those who catch the virus will need hospital treatment. But given the number of infections we cannot wait to find out before we act and so work is beginning from today to ensure these facilities are in place.”

Nytimes

Medical director for the National Health Service in England

30 Dec 2021 3 2

Peter Hoetz

Inserted 2 years ago

“We have to be really careful about being too dismissive of Omicron. Rising hospitalizations as healthcare workers are sidelined with their own COVID cases is also concerning, as are fewer effective therapeutics. We're in for a pretty serious time.”

Reuters

Infectious disease expert at Baylor College of Medicine

30 Dec 2021 4 5

Michael Osterholm

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are going to see the number of cases in this country rise so dramatically, we are going to have a hard time keeping everyday life operating. The next month is going to be a viral blizzard. All of society is going to be pressured by this.”

Reuters

American epidemiologist, Regents Professor, and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota

30 Dec 2021 3 3

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Apnews

Director-General of the World Health Organization

29 Dec 2021 6 2

Christian Dubé

Inserted 2 years ago

“The province has little choice but to change its isolation protocols due to the meteoric spread of the Omicron variant, which has created staff shortages. The health system cannot maintain services while nearly 7,000 workers are home isolating because of a positive COVID-19 test or exposure to the virus. Omicron's contagion is so exponential that a huge number of personnel have to be withdrawn, and that poses a risk to the network capacity to treat Quebecers.”

Thestar

Quebec Health Minister

28 Dec 2021 4 2

Robert Wachter

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Npr

Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco

27 Dec 2021 9 3

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 years ago

“Omicron is a source of concern, but it should not be a source of panic. We're prepared and we know what it takes to save lives, protect people and keep schools and businesses open. We just have to stay focused and continue to work together. If you need something, say something and we are going to have your back any way we can. Seeing how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend shows that we have more work to do. It's clearly not enough. If we'd known, we would've gone harder and quicker if we could have.”

Aljazeera

President of the United States

27 Dec 2021 3 2

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even though we're pleased by the evidence from multiple countries - it looks like there is a lesser degree of severity - we've got to be careful that we don't get complacent about that. There were still tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans. Those are the most vulnerable ones when you have a virus that is extraordinarily effective in getting to people and infecting them the way Omicron is.”

Nytimes

Top US infectious disease expert

26 Dec 2021 3 3

Paul Donaldson

Inserted 2 years ago

“It would be ludicrous not to respond more decisively to Omicron, and that Christmas mingling will inevitably have spread Covid. There is a high probability we are moving too late. We will soon start to see the impact of Christmas. We are holding out hope that hospitalisations are at the lower end of projections. But given the uncertainty we face it would be ludicrous not to take additional precautions.”

Theguardian

General secretary of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association

26 Dec 2021 5 3

Arnold Monto

Inserted 2 years ago

“The question is: is this going to be like influenza - against which an annual vaccine is recommended - or is it going to be like measles? - which requires only two doses for life-long protection. That's where many of us disagree.”

Theguardian

Professor at the University of Michigan’s school of public health

25 Dec 2021 5 3

Maddie King

Inserted 2 years ago

“The nationwide spike in Omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation. We are working hard to rebook as many people as possible and get them on their way for the holidays.”

Reuters

Spokesman of United Airlines

25 Dec 2021 3 2

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“The time has come for Hong Kong to take some tough measures. We are adopting stringent measures to protect Hong Kong. When vaccination rates increase, when Omicron disappears and when other things happen, we will revisit our strategy.”

“If we see that omicron cases [in Western countries] are generally mild, we need to remember that those are countries where most older people are vaccinated. I certainly wouldn't assume that everything will pass as easily here.”

“We do not yet know exactly how many of those who catch the virus will need hospital treatment. But given the number of infections we cannot wait to find out before we act and so work is beginning from today to ensure these facilities are in place.”

“We have to be really careful about being too dismissive of Omicron. Rising hospitalizations as healthcare workers are sidelined with their own COVID cases is also concerning, as are fewer effective therapeutics. We're in for a pretty serious time.”

“We are going to see the number of cases in this country rise so dramatically, we are going to have a hard time keeping everyday life operating. The next month is going to be a viral blizzard. All of society is going to be pressured by this.”

“The question is: is this going to be like influenza - against which an annual vaccine is recommended - or is it going to be like measles? - which requires only two doses for life-long protection. That's where many of us disagree.”

“The nationwide spike in Omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation. We are working hard to rebook as many people as possible and get them on their way for the holidays.”

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