The rapid spreading of the Delta variant

Githinji Gitahi

Inserted 2 years ago

“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

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

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.”

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Expert on virus transmission at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va

11 Nov 2021 3 3

Linsey Marr

Inserted 2 years ago

“Delta is obviously much more transmissible and the vaccine helps protect against that, but it's not 100 per cent. So it almost puts us back where we were a year ago with a less transmissible virus and no vaccines. At the same time, it's not as upsetting as the first time around because we know what we need to do.”

Cbc

Expert on virus transmission at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va

28 Aug 2021 3 3

Chris Hipkins

Inserted 2 years ago

“Delta does raise some big questions that we're going to have to grapple with, you know less than a 24-hour period for someone getting it and passing it on to others … that's like nothing we've dealt with in this pandemic so far, and it does change everything. It does mean that all of our existing protections … start to look less adequate and less robust. As a result of that we are looking very closely at what more we can do there. At some point we will have to start to be more open in the future.”

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New Zealand Minister for COVID-19 Response

22 Aug 2021 2 4

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant. But we cannot accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it. We need an urgent reversal from the majority of vaccines going to high-income countries to the majority going to low-income countries.”

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Director-General of the World Health Organization

04 Aug 2021 7 3

David Montefiori

Inserted 2 years ago

“Frankly there's a severity that comes from this variant [Delta] that is a little more severe. It's not just easier to transmit, it makes you sicker.”

Reuters

Director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University Medical Center

02 Aug 2021 2 3

Rochelle Walensky

Inserted 2 years ago

“High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus.”

Reuters

Head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

30 Jul 2021 5 2

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're going in the wrong direction. If you look at the inflection of the curve of new infections… it is among the unvaccinated and since we have 50 percent of the country is not fully vaccinated, that's a problem - particularly when you have a variant like Delta which has this extraordinary characteristic of being able to spread very efficiently and very easily from person to person. If you are vaccinated, the vaccine is highly protective against the Delta variant, particularly against severe disease leading to hospitalisation and sometimes ultimately to death. It's really an outbreak among the unvaccinated … which is the reason why we're out there practically pleading with the unvaccinated people to go out and get vaccinated.”

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Top US infectious disease expert

25 Jul 2021 4 4

Antony Blinken

Inserted 2 years ago

“As long as this virus is out there anywhere, replicating, we're going to see more variants, and those variants are going to come back and bite us as we're already experiencing with Delta. As we are pursuing every effort to get every American vaccinated, we are also engaged in the world.”

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U.S. Secretary of State

23 Jul 2021 7 3

Rochelle Walensky

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains. It is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of, and that I have seen in my 20-year career.”

Aljazeera

Head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

22 Jul 2021 2 1

Chris Whitty

Inserted 2 years ago

“I don't think we should underestimate the fact that we could get into trouble again surprisingly fast. I think saying the numbers in hospital are low now, that does not mean the numbers will be low in hospital in five, six, seven, eight weeks' time. They could actually be really quite serious. We've still got 2,000 people in hospital and that number is increasing. If we double from 2,000 to 4,000 from 4,000 to 8,000, 8,000 and so on it doesn't take many doubling times until you're in very, very large numbers indeed.”

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England’s Chief Medical Officer

15 Jul 2021 2 4

Young-rae Sohn

Inserted 2 years ago

“We judged that there was no need to worry too much about the Delta variant as its infection rate was very low at the time. Looking back at the situation in June, we should have been more active in trying to control the variant.”

Koreatimes

Senior official from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea

14 Jul 2021 4 3

James Naismith

Inserted 2 years ago

“Delta is going to sweep through the EU in much the same way as here. Fortunately, they too are vaccinating at a very fast rate, and like the UK are probably just past the point of maximum danger, though summer will be rough. But with so few people in developing countries vaccinated, their point of maximum danger is ahead. Once Delta gets going, it will overwhelm healthcare systems very rapidly unless vaccination improves. More thought needs to be given to whether vaccinating young children in the rich world is as important and ethically justified as vaccinating key workers and the most vulnerable in developing countries.”

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Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Oxford

04 Jul 2021 6 4

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Delta variant is dangerous and is continuing to evolve and mutate, which requires constant evaluation and careful adjustment of the public health response. Delta has been detected in at least 98 countries, and is spreading quickly in countries with low and high vaccination coverage. The world must equitably share protective gear, oxygen, tests, treatments and vaccines. By July next year, 70 percent of people in every country should be vaccinated. This is the best way to slow the pandemic, save lives and drive a truly global economic recovery, and along the way prevent further dangerous variants from getting the upper hand.”

Taipeitimes

Director-General of the World Health Organization

04 Jul 2021 2 4

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“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!”

“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.”

“Frankly there's a severity that comes from this variant [Delta] that is a little more severe. It's not just easier to transmit, it makes you sicker.”

“High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus.”

“As long as this virus is out there anywhere, replicating, we're going to see more variants, and those variants are going to come back and bite us as we're already experiencing with Delta. As we are pursuing every effort to get every American vaccinated, we are also engaged in the world.”

“The Delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains. It is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of, and that I have seen in my 20-year career.”

“We judged that there was no need to worry too much about the Delta variant as its infection rate was very low at the time. Looking back at the situation in June, we should have been more active in trying to control the variant.”

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