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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 1 year ago

“As the virus pushes at us, we must push back. We're in a much better position than at the beginning of the pandemic. Of course, there's been a lot of progress. We have safe and effective tools that prevent infections, hospitalisations and deaths. However, we should not take them for granted.”

Aljazeera

Director-General of the World Health Organization

12 Jul 2022 4 1

Dr Matshidiso Moeti

Inserted 2 years ago

“A new meta-analysis of standardised sero-prevalence study revealed that the true number of infections could be as much as 97 times higher than the number of confirmed reported cases. This suggests that more than two-thirds of all Africans have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus. The focus was very much on testing people who were symptomatic when there were challenges in having access to testing supplies and this resulted in under-representing the true number of people who have been exposed and are infected by the virus.”

Aljazeera

WHO regional director for Africa

08 Apr 2022 4 1

Sumit Agarwal

Inserted 2 years ago

“Only Hong Kong and China are saying they are trying to eradicate the virus. It would have worked if other countries did the same but the fact they don't think that way means the virus is always flowing.”

Reuters

Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Business School

28 Jan 2022 4 5

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

Abdullah Shihipar

Inserted 2 years ago

“How exactly did the richest country in the world get here? There are a number of reasons, but the primary one is that the United States does not have a free, universal health care system. The lack of a national health insurance program affects everything from vaccine hesitancy to the ability to get a test to how we manage the virus going forward.”

Thenation

Writer who focuses on public health, race, class, and other social justice issues

23 Dec 2021 5 4

Maria Van Kerkhove

Inserted 2 years ago

“Getting vaccines to those who need them most must be a priority for every single government - not just some. If we don't, we will continue to see the virus change and threaten us in ways that will bring us closer to the beginning rather than closer to the end.”

Bbc

World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist

22 Dec 2021 4 2

Bonnie Henry

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are learning about this virus after two years, almost two years, and we know that it is inevitable now that most of us in the province will be exposed at some point, the way that this virus is being transmitted, this strain of the virus is being transmitted in communities across the province. It is over time very likely that all of us will have exposure to it. How it affects us depends on our own actions and what we are doing.”

Cbc

Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia

21 Dec 2021 5 4

Craig Spencer

Inserted 2 years ago

“After two years of dealing with this virus - working extra shifts, watching families sob on grainy FaceTime calls while their loved ones slipped away-many health-care workers are already in a dark place. With a new wave of COVID upon us, we face this grim truth: You can't surge a circuit that's been burned out. For frontline providers, there's simply no new fuse that can fix the fact that we're fried.”

Theatlantic

Emergency-medicine physician and director of global health in emergency medicine at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center

21 Dec 2021 5 2

Scott Morrison

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're not going back to lockdowns. We're going forward to live with this virus with common sense and responsibility.”

Reuters

Australian Prime Minister

21 Dec 2021 5 2

Magdalena Andersson

Inserted 2 years ago

“We must now take joint responsibility and we need adapt to the new reality. I understand that many are tired of this - so am I - but we now have a new virus variant, which means we are in a new situation.”

Reuters

Prime Minister of Sweden

21 Dec 2021 2 3

Francis Collins

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even if it has a somewhat lower risk of severity, we could be having a million cases a day if we're not really attentive to all of those mitigation strategies. And you know a small fraction of a big number is still a really big number. I don't know that we'll hit that but there are certainly projections that say that could happen with a virus that seems to doubling most places where it's been every two to four days. I know people are tired of this. I'm tired of it too, believe me. But the virus is not tired of us.”

Thehill

Outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health

20 Dec 2021 2 3

Andrew Lipow

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is a knee-jerk reaction to the proliferation of the virus and the fear that lockdowns can rapidly spread.”

Aljazeera

President of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston

20 Dec 2021 2 2

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 2 years ago

“This virus is extraordinary.”

Nytimes

Top US infectious disease expert

19 Dec 2021 4 2

Michael Osterholm

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Thehill

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

Roberto Bruzzone

Inserted 2 years ago

“It looks like the whole world overheated and is no longer able to address the pandemic, which is a serious issue, in a more balanced way. Societies had no choice but to co-exist with the virus. Yet we need to vaccinate, adapt vaccines, as we do for influenza, and carry on. The real preparedness is not to impose lockdowns, masks outdoors, but make sure that the health system can cope with surges in medical demands, regardless of the nature of the disease.”

Aljazeera

Co-director of the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole in Hong Kong

16 Dec 2021 9 1

Jeremy Kamil

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Theguardian

Associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport

15 Dec 2021 8 3

Michael Chan Chi-wai

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is also noted that by infecting many more people, a very infectious virus may cause more severe disease and death even though the virus itself may be less pathogenic. Therefore, taken together with our recent studies showing that the Omicron variant can partially escape immunity from vaccines and past infection, the overall threat from the Omicron variant is likely to be very significant.”

Theguardian

Associate Professor University of Hong Kong - Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences

15 Dec 2021 6 2

Peter Jüni

Inserted 2 years ago

“Most people in Canada, like other wealthy countries, haven't been infected with COVID-19. So if they lack vaccine protection they are especially vulnerable to Omicron. What really worries me is that people are asleep at the steering wheel, internationally. They have wishful thinking it will be mild ... This is not a realistic attitude. I'm completely exhausted. I've had it. I'm done completely. But the virus doesn't care.”

Reuters

Director of Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table

15 Dec 2021 5 4

Mike Ryan

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Head of WHO’s emergencies programme

08 Dec 2021 6 2

Kim Woo-joo

Inserted 2 years ago

“This virus spreading will continue for a while as the effectiveness of the vaccinations in the elderly decreases, and secondary infections will also increase through home treatment.”

Koreatimes

Professor of infectious diseases at Korea University Guro Hospital

08 Dec 2021 4 2

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“As the virus pushes at us, we must push back. We're in a much better position than at the beginning of the pandemic. Of course, there's been a lot of progress. We have safe and effective tools that prevent infections, hospitalisations and deaths. However, we should not take them for granted.”

“Only Hong Kong and China are saying they are trying to eradicate the virus. It would have worked if other countries did the same but the fact they don't think that way means the virus is always flowing.”

“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.”

“Getting vaccines to those who need them most must be a priority for every single government - not just some. If we don't, we will continue to see the virus change and threaten us in ways that will bring us closer to the beginning rather than closer to the end.”

“We're not going back to lockdowns. We're going forward to live with this virus with common sense and responsibility.”

“We must now take joint responsibility and we need adapt to the new reality. I understand that many are tired of this - so am I - but we now have a new virus variant, which means we are in a new situation.”

“This is a knee-jerk reaction to the proliferation of the virus and the fear that lockdowns can rapidly spread.”

“This virus is extraordinary.”

“This virus spreading will continue for a while as the effectiveness of the vaccinations in the elderly decreases, and secondary infections will also increase through home treatment.”

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