Ipse by Tag - variant

Lee Jae-gab

Inserted 2 years ago

“The efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for the elderly has been reduced due to the emergence of the more virulent and aggressive Delta variant. Neither the government nor medical experts expected critical cases to increase so quickly.”

Koreatimes

Professor of infectious diseases at Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital

26 Nov 2021 6 4

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.”

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Virologist at the Imperial College London

23 Nov 2021 13 1

Linsey Marr

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's hard to know what's coming next with this virus. We thought we knew, but delta really surprised us. We thought the vaccine would help end this, but things are still dragging on. It's hard to know what's going to happen next.”

Apnews

Expert on virus transmission at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va

11 Nov 2021 3 3

Hans Kluge

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is taking place in the context of a rapidly evolving situation. A new variant of concern - the Delta variant - and in a region where, despite tremendous efforts by member states, millions remain unvaccinated. There will be a new wave in the WHO European region unless we remain disciplined. [Half of elderly people and 40% of healthcare workers still unprotected] That is unacceptable, and that is far from the recommended 80 percent coverage of the adult population. The three conditions for a new wave of excess hospitalisations and deaths before the autumn are therefore in place: New variants, deficit in vaccine uptake, increased social mixing.”

Aljazeera

WHO’s regional director for Europe

01 Jul 2021 6 2

Maria Van Kerkhove

Inserted 2 years ago

“At the present time, we have not yet made an assessment of the virus variant reported in Vietnam. Our country office is working with the Ministry of Health in Vietnam and we expect more information soon. However we will provide more information as soon as we receive it.”

Reuters

World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist

29 May 2021 3 2

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

Zweli Mkhize

Inserted 3 years ago

“Given the outcomes of the efficacy studies [the government] will continue with the planned phase one vaccination using the Johnson & Johnson vaccines instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been proven effective against the 501Y.V2 variant.”

Aljazeera

South Africa Minister of Health

10 Feb 2021 6 4

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

Lawrence Young

Inserted 3 years ago

“The accumulation of more spike mutations in the South African variant are more of a concern and could lead to some escape from immune protection.”

Cbc

Virologist and professor of molecular oncology at Warwick University

04 Jan 2021 4 2

Robert Peston

Inserted 3 years ago

“According to one of the government’s scientific advisers, the reason for Matt Hancock's 'incredible worry' about the South African COVID-19 variant is that they are not as confident the vaccines will be as effective against it as they are for the UK’s variant”

Aljazeera

ITV political editor

04 Jan 2021 5 4

Matt Hancock

Inserted 3 years ago

“I’m incredibly worried about the South African variant, and that’s why we took the action that we did to restrict all flights from South Africa. This is a very, very significant problem […] and it’s even more of a problem than the UK new variant.”

Aljazeera

UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

04 Jan 2021 4 2

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“The efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for the elderly has been reduced due to the emergence of the more virulent and aggressive Delta variant. Neither the government nor medical experts expected critical cases to increase so quickly.”

“It's hard to know what's coming next with this virus. We thought we knew, but delta really surprised us. We thought the vaccine would help end this, but things are still dragging on. It's hard to know what's going to happen next.”

“At the present time, we have not yet made an assessment of the virus variant reported in Vietnam. Our country office is working with the Ministry of Health in Vietnam and we expect more information soon. However we will provide more information as soon as we receive it.”

“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.”

“Given the outcomes of the efficacy studies [the government] will continue with the planned phase one vaccination using the Johnson & Johnson vaccines instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been proven effective against the 501Y.V2 variant.”

“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.”

“The accumulation of more spike mutations in the South African variant are more of a concern and could lead to some escape from immune protection.”

“According to one of the government’s scientific advisers, the reason for Matt Hancock's 'incredible worry' about the South African COVID-19 variant is that they are not as confident the vaccines will be as effective against it as they are for the UK’s variant”

“I’m incredibly worried about the South African variant, and that’s why we took the action that we did to restrict all flights from South Africa. This is a very, very significant problem […] and it’s even more of a problem than the UK new variant.”

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