Battle to fight Covid-19

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

Antonella Viola

Inserted 2 years ago

“I agree with the easing of restrictions, because you can't think of it as an emergency after two years. We just have to avoid thinking that COVID is no longer there. And therefore maintain the strictly necessary measures, which are essentially the continuous monitoring and tracking of cases, and the maintenance of the obligation to wear a mask in closed or very crowded places.”

Reuters

Professor of immunology at Italy's University of Padua

16 Mar 2022 3 2

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“Our expectation is that the acute phase of this pandemic will end this year, of course with one condition, the 70 percent vaccination [target is achieved] by mid this year around June, July. If that is to be done, the acute phase can really end, and that is what we are expecting. It's in our hands. It's not a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice.”

Aljazeera

Director-General of WHO

11 Feb 2022 3 2

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

Peter English

Inserted 2 years ago

“There had been an argument about zero Covid and trying to eliminate the virus through restrictions. I think that we've lost that argument. I think that by allowing it to spread to the extent it has, it will be very, very difficult to put the genie back into the bottle. From that perspective we're going to have to live with it being endemic. But endemic doesn't mean not serious.”

Nytimes

Former chair of the British Medical Association's Public Health Medicine Committee

14 Jan 2022 3 3

Noubar Afeyan

Inserted 2 years ago

“2022 may be the year that the pandemic enters an endemic phase, but it really depends on what happens and the decisions that are made across the world.”

Aljazeera

Founder of Moderna

14 Jan 2022 3 2

Geoff Garin

Inserted 2 years ago

“A Conservative prime minister trying to deal in a responsible way with Covid is very different than a Democratic president trying to deal responsibly with Covid. From both a medical perspective and a political perspective there's not as strong an imperative for people to hunker down in the way they were hunkering down a year ago.”

Nytimes

Democratic pollster in Washington

08 Jan 2022 2 1

Naftali Bennett

Inserted 2 years ago

“A week into the fourth dose we know to a higher degree of certainty that the fourth dose is safe. The second piece of news: We know that a week after administration of a fourth dose, we see a five-fold increase in the number of antibodies in the vaccinated person. This most likely means a significant increase against infection and …hospitalization and (severe) symptoms.”

Nationalpost

Israeli Prime Minister

04 Jan 2022 7 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

William Hanage

Inserted 2 years ago

“The unvaccinated are much more likely to be in a hospital, and they're much more likely to be taking up a bed that might be wanted this winter.”

Nytimes

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

25 Dec 2021 2 2

Raywat Deonandan

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Cbc

Epidemiologist and Science Communicator specializing in Global Health

24 Dec 2021 6 3

Matthew Oughton

Inserted 2 years ago

“Unfortunately these measures are very little and I think are highly unlikely to do much at all to stem the tide of infections...and unfortunately with something that transmits as quickly as Omicron you have to move immediately because anything less than that and the transmission of the infection is going to outpace your efforts, it's sad but it's a mathematical fact.”

Cbc

Infectious disease specialist at the Jewish General Hospital and an assistant professor at McGill University in Montreal

23 Dec 2021 3 4

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 2 years ago

“There are many of these parties that have 30, 40, 50 people in which you do not know the vaccination status of individuals. Those are the kind of functions in the context of Omicron that you do not want to go to.”

Usnews

Top US infectious disease expert

22 Dec 2021 3 3

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“Blanket booster programmes are likely to prolong the Covid-19 pandemic, rather than ending it, by diverting supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mutate. No country can boost its way out of the pandemic.”

France24

Director-General of the World Health Organization

22 Dec 2021 5 3

Patrizia Cavazzoni

Inserted 2 years ago

“This authorization provides a new tool to combat COVID-19 at a crucial time in the pandemic as new variants emerge and promises to make antiviral treatment more accessible to patients who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.”

Aljazeera

Director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

22 Dec 2021 3 2

Gregory Poland

Inserted 2 years ago

“The efficacy is high, the side effects are low and it's oral. It checks all the boxes. You're looking at a 90 percent decreased risk of hospitalisation and death in a high-risk group - that's stunning.”

Aljazeera

Professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group

22 Dec 2021 2 2

Krishna Udayakumar

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're now at a point of having more than a billion doses a month of vaccines being produced, but it's a slow trickle still to get to low-income countries and lower middle-income countries. So we have not solved the supply challenge by any means, but we are closer to solving it than we ever have been. Looking forward to 2022 I think the entire game is really going to be about vaccination. So how do we get from airports to arms? How do we convert vaccines to vaccinations? I think we are woefully under-resourced and under-prepared for that … There's good progress to build from but much, much more work to do and financing gaps in the billions if not tens of billions of dollars.”

Aljazeera

Founding director of the Global Health Innovation Center at Duke University in the US

22 Dec 2021 4 4

Sabrina Wong

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is really about a harm reduction approach. So no matter what the new restrictions will be, there will be some who will not change their behaviour and want to see their family and friends. So wouldn't it be better to test and find COVID before the person enters the gathering or the event? We know that people's mental health has deteriorated and many people are emotionally burned out. So rapid antigen testing can be used to ease people's anxiety about whether they have COVID. It's not going to go away very quickly, this pandemic, so people need to start to feel more confident in going about their daily lives.”

Cbc

Professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Nursing

21 Dec 2021 5 4

Robert Wachter

Inserted 2 years ago

“When I go to the store this afternoon, what helps me is to know how much COVID is in my community. There will not be one state of the pandemic. There will be different states for different people and for different regions. And that's going to be the way it is for the foreseeable future.”

Reuters

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

17 Dec 2021 3 2

David Dowdy

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even if that immunity is not as good against Omicron, it doesn't mean that it's worthless. And that immunity is more effective against serious illness than it is against getting infected at all.”

Reuters

Infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins

17 Dec 2021 3 3

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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.”

“2022 may be the year that the pandemic enters an endemic phase, but it really depends on what happens and the decisions that are made across the world.”

“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 unvaccinated are much more likely to be in a hospital, and they're much more likely to be taking up a bed that might be wanted this winter.”

“There are many of these parties that have 30, 40, 50 people in which you do not know the vaccination status of individuals. Those are the kind of functions in the context of Omicron that you do not want to go to.”

“Blanket booster programmes are likely to prolong the Covid-19 pandemic, rather than ending it, by diverting supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mutate. No country can boost its way out of the pandemic.”

“This authorization provides a new tool to combat COVID-19 at a crucial time in the pandemic as new variants emerge and promises to make antiviral treatment more accessible to patients who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.”

“The efficacy is high, the side effects are low and it's oral. It checks all the boxes. You're looking at a 90 percent decreased risk of hospitalisation and death in a high-risk group - that's stunning.”

“When I go to the store this afternoon, what helps me is to know how much COVID is in my community. There will not be one state of the pandemic. There will be different states for different people and for different regions. And that's going to be the way it is for the foreseeable future.”

“Even if that immunity is not as good against Omicron, it doesn't mean that it's worthless. And that immunity is more effective against serious illness than it is against getting infected at all.”

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