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    Abdallah al-Dardari “The United Nations Development Programme's initial estimates for the reconstruction of … the Gaza Strip surpasses $30bn and could reach up to $40bn. The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented … this is a mission that the global community has not dealt with since World War II.” 4 hours ago
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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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Jung Jae-hun
Jung Jae-hun

“The government seems to be not fully aware of the current situation. This is not a good time to consider any return to the normalcy scheme at all, but a time to come up with stronger quarantine measures.”

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Assistant professor at Gachon University's preventive medicine department
08 Dec 2021 2 2
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Kim Woo-joo
Kim Woo-joo

“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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Professor of infectious diseases at Korea University Guro Hospital
08 Dec 2021 4 2
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Albert Bourla
Albert Bourla

“Although two doses of the vaccine may still offer protection against severe disease caused by the Omicron strain, it's clear from these preliminary data that protection is maximised with a third dose of our vaccine. Ensuring as many people as possible are fully vaccinated with the first two dose series and a booster remains the best course of action to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”

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Pfizer chairman and chief executive
08 Dec 2021 6 3
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Catherine Smallwood
Catherine Smallwood

“Disease outbreaks are contained at their source, not at their borders. And travel bans, though they may be easily accessible in terms of political decision-making, they are not effective in preventing spread of disease. They really are not effective.”

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Senior emergency officer at the WHO regional office for Europe
07 Dec 2021 (approx) 3 2
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Hans Kluge
Hans Kluge

“As school holidays approach, we must also acknowledge that children contaminate their parents and grandparents at home. Those groups are 10 times more likely to develop severe disease, be hospitalised or - if unvaccinated - die. The use of mask and ventilation and regular testing should be a standard at all primary schools. And vaccinating children should be discussed and considered nationally as part of school protection measures. Vaccination of younger children not only reduces their role in Covid-19 transmission, but also protects them from paediatric severity whether associated with long Covid or multi-system, inflammatory syndromes.”

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WHO’s regional director for Europe
07 Dec 2021 8 2
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Dame Sarah Gilbert
Dame Sarah Gilbert

“The truth is, the next one could be worse. It could be more contagious, or more lethal, or both. This will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and our livelihoods. The advances we have made, and the knowledge we have gained, must not be lost.”

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Oxford professor who led the team behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
06 Dec 2021 4 1
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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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John Nkengasong
John Nkengasong

“We are very concerned but are not worried that the situation cannot be managed. There is no need to panic. We are not defenceless. This will be the fourth wave that we are facing as a continent. We know how to deploy rapid responders, we know how to provide the interventions that are necessary.”

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Director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
02 Dec 2021 2 2
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Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel

“We have understood that the situation is very serious and that we want to take further measures in addition to those already taken. The fourth wave must be broken and this has not yet been achieved.”

Cnn

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Chancellor of Germany
02 Dec 2021 2 3
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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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Ugur Sahin
Ugur Sahin

“Our message is: Don't freak out, the plan remains the same: Speed up the administration of a third booster shot. Our belief [that the vaccines work against Omicron] is rooted in science: If a virus achieves immune escape, it achieves it against antibodies, but there is the second level of immune response that protects from severe disease-the T-cells.”

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Chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech
30 Nov 2021 6 4
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

“I well understand the concern of all countries to protect their citizens against a variant that we don't yet fully understand. But I am equally concerned that several member states are introducing blunt, blanket measures that are not evidence-based or effective on their own, and which will only worsen inequities.”

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Director-General of the World Health Organization
30 Nov 2021 3 3
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Joe Biden
Joe Biden

“This variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. If you are vaccinated, but still worried about the new variant, get your booster. If you aren't vaccinated, get that shot. Go get that first shot. We'll fight this variant with scientific and knowledgeable actions and speed, not chaos and confusion. The point of the [travel] restriction is to give us time to get people vaccinated.”

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President of the United States
29 Nov 2021 6 4
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Peter Hotez
Peter Hotez

“The sky is not falling. We've not seen any evidence that Omicron causes any more severe disease than any other variants.”

Cnn

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Dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
29 Nov 2021 3 2
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Peter English
Peter English

“The number of mutations per se does not mean that the new variant will cause any problems; although it may make it more likely to look different to the immune system.”

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Former chair of the British Medical Association's Public Health Medicine Committee
29 Nov 2021 4 2
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Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in

“We've overcome crises multiple times so far, but we are now having another crisis as another level. The number of new patients, critical patients and deaths are all increasing, and we are running short of hospital beds. If we fail to overcome this crisis, our attempt to return to normality may gradually fail. We need more vigilance and a united response more than ever. The urgent task is to have people get their third shots as soon as possible. We need to change the perception that the third shot is additional, to making it basic, and getting this third shot constitutes full vaccination.”

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President of South Korea
29 Nov 2021 7 3
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Zhang Wenhong
Zhang Wenhong

“It is hard to say that the global effort in fighting against coronavirus has gone up in smoke. Two weeks of data and lab materials are needed to make a precise judgment of the new variant. The vaccination rate in South Africa, where the new variant caused a jump in infection, is very low, with just 24 percent of fully vaccinated individuals. If the situation [in South Africa] occurred in Israel [where more than 80 percent are vaccinated], then undoubtedly, we would say the world is facing another round of a tough COVID-19 fight.”

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China's leading infectious disease specialist
28 Nov 2021 8 3
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Francis Collins
Francis Collins

“We expect that most likely the current vaccines will be sufficient to provide protection. And especially the boosters will give that additional layer of protection.”

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Director of the National Institutes of Health
28 Nov 2021 4 3
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Shabir Madhi
Shabir Madhi

“Its naïve for developed countries to believe they can stop the spread of this variant with a blanket ban on countries in southern Africa. The virus has already found its way into these societies from individuals that haven't even travelled to or come into contact with anyone from southern Africa. The fact it was discovered here does not make it a South African variant - it was merely discovered here. In South Africa we have one of the globe's best COVID sequencing capacities based on our experience with treating HIV and TB. We have been ahead of the game for a while now and we are thus a victim of our success.”

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South African vaccinologist
28 Nov 2021 5 4
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Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence

“This is absolute chaos. Nobody can tell us what is possible in terms of travel at this point. Things are changing by the minute and we are left in the lurch. We had planned to stay in the United States for the month of December - and now we are stuck.”

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Stranded traveller at OR Tambo
28 Nov 2021 3 1
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Jennifer Nuzzo
Jennifer Nuzzo

“The notion of having a global map of where the variants are and aren't is just fantasy. I don't think the travel bans really have much of an impact, other than answering the political pressures that inevitably arise when a new variant emerges.”

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Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University
27 Nov 2021 3 1
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Michael Head
Michael Head

“This is one of the consequences of the inequity in vaccine rollouts and why the grabbing of surplus vaccines by richer countries will inevitably rebound on us all at some point.”

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Senior research fellow in global health at Britain's University of Southampton
27 Nov 2021 4 4
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Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown

“In the absence of mass vaccination, Covid is not only spreading uninhibited among unprotected people but is mutating, with new variants emerging out of the poorest countries and now threatening to unleash themselves on even fully vaccinated people in the richest countries of the world.”

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Former Prime Minister of the UK and WHO ambassador for global health financing
26 Nov 2021 6 2
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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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Lee Jae-gab
Lee Jae-gab

“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.”

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Professor of infectious diseases at Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital
26 Nov 2021 6 4
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Christian Lindmeier
Christian Lindmeier

“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.”

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Spokesman for World Health Organization (WHO)
26 Nov 2021 7 3
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

“In many countries and communities, we are concerned about a false sense of security that vaccines have ended the pandemic, and that people who are vaccinated do not need to take any other precautions. Vaccines save lives, but they do not fully prevent transmission.”

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Director-General of the World Health Organization
24 Nov 2021 4 2
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Kim Boo-kyum
Kim Boo-kyum

“We are in the fourth week after adopting the gradual return to normalcy plan. It is now time to make a decision on whether to move on to the next stage, but the situation is much more serious than expected.”

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Prime Minister of South Korea
24 Nov 2021 2 1
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Thomas Peacock
Thomas Peacock

“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
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Zuzana Caputova
Zuzana Caputova

“It's an unpopular measure, but absolutely unavoidable. Experts are clear. It's necessary to restrict people's mobility, we need a lockdown ... unfortunately, it's a measure that has to affect everyone.”

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President of Slovakia
23 Nov 2021 3 4
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WHO Europe
WHO Europe

“We can expect that there will be high or extreme stress on hospital beds in 25 countries, and high or extreme stress in intensive care units (ICUs) in 49 out of 53 countries between now and 1 March 2022. Cumulative reported deaths are projected to reach over 2.2 million by spring next year, based on current trends.”

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Statement by WHO Europe
22 Nov 2021 5 1
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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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Emmerson Gono
Emmerson Gono

“The health system of Afghanistan was very donor dependent, and the donors withdrew their support. The implications of that cut-off are tragic, and felt immediately. We are getting overwhelmed with the workload, people are coming from all over the province and even other provinces. We go far beyond our capacity, because we will not turn away someone we see is critically ill.”

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Project coordinator for MSF in Helmand (Afghanistan)
21 Nov 2021 2 3
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Richard Stutt
Richard Stutt

“I think mask-wearing is, in many ways, one of the interventions that you probably want to relax last. Mask-wearing is very, very low cost in comparison to most other interventions.”

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Infectious disease modeler at the University of Cambridge
20 Nov 2021 3 2
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Anne Rimoin
Anne Rimoin

“Cases are starting to rise again, and we have not yet conquered this virus. We may be tired of Covid and Covid restrictions and public health measures, but this virus is certainly not done with us yet.”

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Epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles
20 Nov 2021 4 1
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Emilian Popa
Emilian Popa

“When I started Ilara, I was going into low-income areas of Nairobi and there was no lab. I was Google Mapping for labs and there's no labs. So my immediate entrepreneurial conclusion, well, there is no lab, there should be a lab so let me build labs. But the reality is that you can't just build labs because if you just be labs and there is no one to prescribe tests, you're not going to solve the problem. So we saw that how can we actually bring those labs on the desk, very, very close to the patient? What we are doing is not only that we scout the world for these point-of-care diagnostic technologies, which is evolving very, very fast, in the same way, you know, our iPhones and our phones have evolved in the past 10 years. It's evolving very fast, it's become cheaper and cheaper. So we've identified, we're curating those devices, we bring them into Africa, we finance them. So we place them door-to-door into those nurse-led medical facilities, but with a leasing model to make it affordable to them to have those devices, to be able to deliver better diagnostic and cheaper diagnostics, and obviously to be able to make revenue and to be able to pay us back that leasing fee. And on top of this, we connect those devices with a piece of technology to be able to get the results in a centralized way and communicate them back to the clinician and eventually back to the patient.”

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Co-founder & CEO, Ilara Health
18 Nov 2021 7 3
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Kim Woo-joo
Kim Woo-joo

“Some of my outpatients ask why they should receive the vaccine when it is not 100 percent effective at preventing infections, while some refuse inoculation due to concerns over adverse effects. The government should come up with a plan to alleviate public concern. Rapid administration of booster shots is important in preventing a possible increase in infections that could arise from the period when end-of-year gatherings are numerous.”

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Infectious disease specialist at Korea University Guro Hospital
18 Nov 2021 7 4
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Kim Woo-joo
Kim Woo-joo

“It does not seem appropriate to go onto the next step at this point when the country is facing multiple risks: cold winter weather, the increasing threat of the Delta variant and waning vaccine effectiveness among fully vaccinated people. Due to the drastic relaxation of the social distancing rules, everything seems to have almost completely returned to what it was like before the pandemic already. Though the Living with COVID-19 policies aim to focus more on critically ill patients, the authorities should not undermine the importance of curbing new infections.”

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Infectious disease specialist at Korea University Guro Hospital
13 Nov 2021 8 4
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Chun Eun-mi
Chun Eun-mi

“Under phase 2, curfews on night entertainment establishments will be lifted as well as mandatory face masks outdoors. It seems highly risky to ease those measures in the current situation. Rather than taking such steps, the government should focus on a rapid rollout of booster shots in response to the rising cases of breakthrough infections.”

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Pulmonologist at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital
13 Nov 2021 5 4
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Mike Ryan
Mike Ryan

“Quite frankly, some countries are in such a difficult situation now that they're going to find it hard not to put in place restrictive measures at least for a short period of time to reduce the intensity of transmission. Other countries can re-engage with communities around masks, around avoiding crowded spaces, around limiting their contact with others, work from home and many other initiatives and very importantly increasing vaccine coverage in high-risk populations.”

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Head of WHO’s emergencies programme
12 Nov 2021 6 2
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Jeong Eun-kyeong
Jeong Eun-kyeong

“We may have to extend the current phase, or strengthen the quarantine measures. We are monitoring the increase of critical patients cautiously. Given that only 10 days have passed into the new scheme, we will continue to monitor the situation and take the necessary measures.”

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Commissioner of Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
11 Nov 2021 3 3
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Linsey Marr
Linsey Marr

“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.”

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Expert on virus transmission at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va
11 Nov 2021 3 3
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Jennifer Morse
Jennifer Morse

“Concern over COVID in general is pretty much gone, which is unfortunate. I feel strange going into a store masked. I'm a minority. It's very different. It's just a really unusual atmosphere right now.”

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Medical director at health departments in 20 central and northern Michigan counties
11 Nov 2021 1 1
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Eli Rosenberg
Eli Rosenberg

“For those over 65, getting a booster helps cover your bases to make sure you are extra-, extra-protected, because the consequences are higher. It's easy with all the discussion about boosters to lose that really important message that the vaccines are still working. Going from an unvaccinated to a vaccinated person is still the critical step.”

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Deputy director for science in the Office of Public Health at the New York State Department of Health
11 Nov 2021 4 2
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Melissa Higdon
Melissa Higdon

“The main objective of the Covid vaccine is to prevent severe disease and death, and they are still doing a good job at that. With true declines in vaccine effectiveness, we'll likely see more cases overall.”

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Faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
11 Nov 2021 2 3
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Valeriu Ghorghita
Valeriu Ghorghita

“Fake news has a huge influence on our population, and in Eastern Europe in general. Something we all have in common in this part of Europe is our political history of communism. Under leaders like Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania's longtime dictator, who was overthrown and executed in 1989, nobody trusted their neighbors, nobody trusted the authorities, nobody trusted anybody.”

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Army colonel leading Romania’s vaccination effort
09 Nov 2021 5 4
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Anca Streinu-Cercel
Anca Streinu-Cercel

“This wave is far worse than the others - it is like a war. We go into our wards but don't know when we will come out. What makes the surge particularly difficult is that it could have been easily avoided. A few who got shots fell seriously ill but this was because their immune systems had been compromised by treatment for cancer or other illnesses. The only real reason anyone is here is because they did not get vaccinated.”

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Doctor who works at the biggest infectious disease hospital, Bals National Institute in the Romanian capital Bucharest
09 Nov 2021 3 4
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Ministry of Health of Singapore
Ministry of Health of Singapore

“All COVID-19 patients who are unvaccinated by choice will have to pay their own medical bills if they are admitted to hospitals or COVID-19 treatment facilities. Currently, unvaccinated persons make up a sizeable majority of those who require intensive inpatient care, and disproportionately contribute to the strain on our healthcare resources.”

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Statement by Ministry of Health of Singapore
08 Nov 2021 4 2
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Steve Tsang
Steve Tsang

“I understand why the government is going slow, but it will have to accept that we will have to live with Covid now, and the Zero Covid policy is not sustainable. It may well need more time to increase the rate of vaccination before it can relax substantially the travel restrictions, but it should provide clear guidelines on the criteria for doing so.”

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Director of the SOAS China Institute at the SOAS University of London
08 Nov 2021 3 6
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Lynette Ong
Lynette Ong

“The regime thinks it needs to maintain a 'zero Covid' policy to maintain its legitimacy. At a huge cost, though... Outbreaks have become so commonplace that it's really a non-event. But the Chinese authorities want to control any small potential source of instability.”

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China expert at the University of Toronto
28 Oct 2021 5 5
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Tetyana Mykhailevska
Tetyana Mykhailevska

“Compared to the previous wave, the patients are younger, with a more severe and a faster course of the disease. While during the previous waves we were able to influence the course of the disease at least partially, now, unfortunately, we are almost powerless because drugs which we used to use for such patients do not stop the process.”

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Head of the Kyiv hospital number 3's infectious diseases department
26 Oct 2021 3 1
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Jeong Eun-kyeong
Jeong Eun-kyeong

“Although we are preparing for the new normal based on the increased vaccination rate, many uncertainties lie ahead. The envisioned new normal may not be exactly the same as the pre-COVID-19 normalcy, but the transition to a new era where the country is more prepared against the threat of the pandemic is inevitable.”

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Commissioner of Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
25 Oct 2021 5 3
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Mi Feng
Mi Feng

“Every locality should firmly adhere to the policy of 'Defend externally against importation, defend internally against rebound'. The current control measures cannot be relaxed.”

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Spokesman for the National Health Commission
24 Oct 2021 2 2
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Adam Finn
Adam Finn

“The vaccination programme by itself was not enough to bring things under control. We do need to have people using lateral flow tests, avoiding contact with large numbers of people in enclosed spaces, using masks, all of those things now need to happen if we're going to stop this rise and get things under control soon enough to stop a real meltdown in the middle of the winter.”

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Member of the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)
24 Oct 2021 1 2
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Deepti Gurdasani
Deepti Gurdasani

“There is nothing at all mysterious about what happened in England. The high levels of community infection resulted in explosive growth when schools re-opened in September. Everything that's happening here was entirely predictable. I expect that the NHS [National Health Service] will collapse. I don't think the NHS is going to cope with winter.”

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Epidemiologist at Queen Mary University London
22 Oct 2021 3 2
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Quique Bassat
Quique Bassat

“The U.K. is an outlier, because it does have quite high coverage of vaccination - and is still having 45,000 cases per day. Yet after Britain marked 'freedom day' in July, it was to be expected that there would be a persistence of transmission as opposed to other countries which have maintained much more stringent preventive measures.”

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ICREA Research Professor, Head of the Malaria Programme
22 Oct 2021 3 1
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Oleg Kuvshinnikov
Oleg Kuvshinnikov

“I'm calling on all anti-vaxxers who have unleashed merry hell on social media against vaccinations, look into the eyes of those who have lost loved ones. Our Russian vaccine is absolutely safe.”

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Governor of Vologda (Russia)
22 Oct 2021 3 4
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Natavan Ibragimova
Natavan Ibragimova

“I think about sleepless nights when we get a huge number of patients who didn't even bother to use banal protective means. Patients who have gotten the vaccine usually don't have serious symptoms while the unvaccinated come to regret it. Patients who survive after a grave course of illness tell us when they are discharged, 'Doctor, you were right and I will tell everyone that it's necessary to get the vaccine'.”

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Internist of Internal Medicine Department No. 4 of the Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52
20 Oct 2021 3 5
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Georgy Arbolishvili
Georgy Arbolishvili

“The majority of ICU patients in grave condition are unvaccinated. These illnesses could have been very easily avoided if a person had been vaccinated. Those statistics [record 1,015 fatalities reported Tuesday October 19th 2021] are directly linked to vaccinations. The countries with a high share of those vaccinated don't have such bad mortality numbers.”

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Head of Resuscitation and Intensive Care Unit (ICU No. 3) of the Moscow City Clinical Hospital
20 Oct 2021 6 2
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Mike Ryan
Mike Ryan

“The Northern hemisphere is heading into another winter, and just need to be a little concerned about that uptick across Europe as we enter the late, late, deep autumn. As societies are opening up, we're seeing those numbers rise, and in a number of countries, we're already seeing the health system begin to come under pressure, we're seeing the number of available ICU beds decreasing.”

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Head of WHO’s emergencies programme
20 Oct 2021 4 1
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Michael Lai
Michael Lai

“Vaccines can reduce the transmission of the virus, its severe complications, and its death rate, though it will continue to mutate and linger. However it could pose less danger over time and become something more akin to a seasonal flu. Humans must eventually learn to live with the COVID-19 virus.”

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Taiwanese virologist and Academia Sinica researcher
19 Oct 2021 5 3
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Chou Jih-haw
Chou Jih-haw

“This is the first time since April 8, which was 193 days ago, that we reported zero ... locally transmitted cases, imported cases and deaths. Of course, we are glad to see the numbers return to zero, but we need to work hard to keep up the good work. Reopening the national borders is a very big decision, and it would depend on the global COVID-19 situation and Taiwan's preparedness for it.”

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Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director-General
18 Oct 2021 3 3
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Debbie Kaminer
Debbie Kaminer

“Mandates do work. I want to emphasise here that nobody's talking about forced vaccinations. It's that if you want to be a healthcare provider, you need to get a vaccine. If you want to work in a classroom full of unvaccinated children, you need to get the vaccine. The point isn't to be punitive. It's about keeping society safe.”

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Professor of law at Baruch College, the City University of New York
18 Oct 2021 5 3
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Dicky Budiman
Dicky Budiman

“Mandatory schemes during a crisis will be counterproductive. When people have what we call conspiracy theories or they have misbeliefs or misunderstandings, [such schemes] will only strengthen their opinions.”

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Indonesian epidemiologist who advises the WHO on pandemic recovery
18 Oct 2021 4 3
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Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou

“There is a very clear connection between human rights and mandatory vaccinations. It is 100 percent a human rights issue related to the right to privacy and the right to bodily integrity. Human rights protect our bodies and our ability to be the masters of our bodies. The consequence of this is our ability to determine our medical treatments. But this right is not absolute. Governments can interfere with it if they can justify such interference as necessary for and proportionate to the achievement of another valuable goal.”

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Professor in human rights law at the University of Liverpool
18 Oct 2021 5 3
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Chen Shih-chung
Chen Shih-chung

“We need to achieve the first step - at least a certain percentage of vaccination coverage - before we can start considering reopening national borders. The fewer local COVID-19 cases we have, the weaker our general immunity against COVID-19 is, and our vaccination coverage is at this point lower than that of several other countries, so Taiwan has a relatively weak immunity.”

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Taiwan Minister of Health and Welfare
17 Oct 2021 3 6
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Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown

“While vaccines have been pledged for donation from all donors, we are not getting the vaccines into people's arms and urgently need a month-to-month timetable to meet our interim targets and prevent further loss of lives. An immediate emergency airlift of 240m vaccines this month from the global north to the global south should be followed by the transfer of a further 760m vaccines transferred by February. This would be the biggest peacetime public policy decision, which could save 100,000 lives and prevent many of the one million Covid-induced deaths projected over the next year. Vital time to contain Covid, stop mutations and save lives is being wasted. It needs our political leaders to step up to the sign-off. Every passing day is a day lost in the battle to contain Covid and save lives. As long as health workers remain unvaccinated and the vulnerable elderly have no protection against Covid-19, deaths in the poorest countries will rise, and there the disease threatens to spread uninhibited in unprotected environments, giving rise to new variants that could eventually infect even the fully vaccinated.”

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Former Prime Minister of the UK and adviser to the World Health Organization
16 Oct 2021 7 3
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Judy Twigg
Judy Twigg

“The WHO [World Health Organization] has said that it needs more data [related to Sputnik V vaccine], and it needs to go back and inspect some production lines where it saw issues early on. Those re-inspections are a multiweek process, with good reason. It's not something that they just gloss over lightly.”

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Political science professor specializing in global health at Virginia Commonwealth University
09 Oct 2021 4 2
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Khairy Jamaluddin
Khairy Jamaluddin

“This decision was made as we prepare to transition into an endemic phase, where we can co-exist with the virus by adding new innovative treatments as 'weapons' to fight COVID-19, apart from vaccinations and other public health measures.”

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Malaysia's Health Minister
07 Oct 2021 2 4
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

“This long-awaited malaria vaccine [Mosquirix] is a breakthrough for science. This is a vaccine developed in Africa by African scientists and we're very proud. Using this vaccine in addition to existing tools to prevent malaria could save tens of thousands of young lives each year.”

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Director-General of WHO
06 Oct 2021 5 2
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Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci

“Oh, absolutely not. That's such a false narrative that someone says, 'Well now you have a drug.' Remember, the easiest way to stay out of the hospital, and not die, is don't get infected. I mean this idea about 'We have a drug, don't get vaccinated,' just doesn't make any sense.”

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Top US infectious disease expert
03 Oct 2021 4 3
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Penny Ward
Penny Ward

“The availability of a well-tolerated, effective oral antiviral [molnupiravir] will be particularly useful in supplementing vaccination as a means to reduce the proportion of patients needing hospital care. It is greatly hoped that the antiviral taskforce has, like the vaccines taskforce, preordered courses of this medication so that the UK can, at last, properly manage this condition by treating vaccine breakthrough disease and relieve pressure on the NHS during the forthcoming winter.”

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Visiting professor in pharmaceutical medicine at King’s College London
01 Oct 2021 4 4
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Dean Li
Dean Li

“It exceeded what I thought the drug might be able to do in this clinical trial. When you see a 50% reduction in hospitalisation or death that's a substantial clinical impact.”

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Vice-president of Merck research molnupiravir
01 Oct 2021 4 3
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Joe Biden
Joe Biden

“We know that to beat this pandemic and to save lives, to keep our children safe, our schools open, our economy going, we need to get folks vaccinated. Please, please do the right thing. Please get the shots. It can save your life and save the lives of those around you, and it's easy, accessible and it's free.”

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President of the United States
27 Sep 2021 2 4
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Ridhi Kashyap
Ridhi Kashyap

“The fact that our results highlight such a large impact that is directly attributable to COVID-19 shows how devastating a shock it has been for many countries. We urgently call for the publication and availability of more disaggregated data to better understand the impacts of the pandemic globally.”

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Associate professor of social demography at the University of Oxford
26 Sep 2021 2 4
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Jeannette Ickovics
Jeannette Ickovics

“Singapore has done relatively well, with widespread testing, tracking, vaccinations, and broad adherence to government policies. These practices and policies will continue here, because the global epidemic persists with more infectious variants and an anemic global vaccine rollout. It is a basic principle of public health that all are vulnerable if any are vulnerable; therefore, we must remain vigilant. How do we live with COVID-19? Go back to basics: wash your hands, wear a mask, convene outdoors, socially distance, if not feeling well stay home. Try to streamline your work, evaluate and articulate what you need to get it done, and embrace flexibility.”

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Professor of public health and psychology at Yale-NUS College in Singapore
19 Sep 2021 9 4
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