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William Hanage

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even if Omicron were half as virulent as Delta, but infected four times as many people, twice as fast, that's still a wrecking ball aimed at a teetering healthcare system. The NHS is already seeing staff shortages from illness and quarantine, and weighing the possibility of reducing or cancelling services.”

Theguardian

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

05 Jan 2022 5 2

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“I'm highly concerned that omicron, being more transmissible (and) circulating at the same time as delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases. That will put immense pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems of the brink of collapse. I still remain optimistic that this can be the year we can not only end the acute stage of the pandemic, but we also chart a path to stronger health security.”

Apnews

Director-General of the World Health Organization

29 Dec 2021 6 2

Robert Wachter

Inserted 2 years ago

“The lower hospitalization rate is likely due to two things: greater immunity among the public from vaccines and prior coronavirus infection, and that omicron might be slightly less severe than delta. Vaccines don't stop infections with omicron, but they do reduce the risk of hospitalization by about 70% - with a booster shot, that figure is even higher. If you're a person who has no immunity at all, no vaccination and no prior infection or your prior infection was a year and a half ago and it was mild, you're not out of the woods. There is a reasonable chance that you will get very sick with omicron.”

Npr

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

27 Dec 2021 9 3

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

Lin Suling

Inserted 2 years ago

“Omicron could prove a bigger test to Singapore's march towards living normally with COVID-19 than Delta did, but the mood isn't one of fear or even fatigue but poise.”

Channelnewsasia

Supervising Editor at Channel News Asia

23 Dec 2021 3 2

Maria Van Kerkhove

Inserted 2 years ago

“Less than 0.1% each of the sequences uploaded to platforms like GISAID have been Alpha, Beta and Gamma. 96% of the sequences available are still Delta. About 1.6% of sequences that have been shared in recent weeks is Omicron. We definitely see increasing growth rates of Omicron where it's been detected and it's now been reported in more than 106 countries to date. There is a combination of factors that we think are leading to this increasing transmission. First are the mutations that are identified in the Omicron variant and we know something about these mutations because some of these are present in other variants of concern. So, for example, in Omicron there are mutations that allow the virus to adhere to the cell more easily and infect the cell more easily. We also see immune escape where we see increasing rates of reinfection. And then there is some preliminary data that's looking at the efficiency and replication of the Omicron variant in the upper respiratory tract as opposed to the lower respiratory tract in the lungs. So this combination of factors is likely leading to why we are seeing increased growth rates in a number of countries.”

Twitter

World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist

22 Dec 2021 14 2

Matthew Binnicker

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's important to emphasize that if omicron has a much higher transmission rate compared to delta, the absolute number of people requiring hospitalization might still increase, despite less severe disease in most cases.”

Apnews

Director of clinical virology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota

22 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

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 2 years ago

“Besides the toll of suffering and death which will inevitably go up if in fact we have that convergence in the winter months of flu and omicron and delta, we could get our hospital systems overwhelmed. With omicron breathing down our back, things could get really bad, particularly for the unvaccinated. The vaccinated and those who are boosted I believe will be relatively well protected, at least against severe disease.”

Thehill

Top US infectious disease expert

16 Dec 2021 6 5

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

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

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“Emerging data from South Africa suggests increased risk of reinfection with Omicron. There is also some evidence that Omicron causes milder disease than Delta.”

Aljazeera

Director-General of the World Health Organization

08 Dec 2021 5 2

Maria Van Kerkhove

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist

05 Dec 2021 4 2

Stephen Hoge

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Moderna's president

05 Dec 2021 4 3

Anthony Fauci

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Top US infectious disease expert

05 Dec 2021 3 2

Soumya Swaminathan

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist

03 Dec 2021 6 2

Jacob Lee

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Koreatimes

Professor of infectious disease at Hallym University Medical Center

02 Dec 2021 4 2

Stephane Bancel

Inserted 2 years ago

“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'.”

Aljazeera

Chief Executive Officer of Moderna Therapeutics

30 Nov 2021 4 3

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!”

Twitter

Chief Executive Officer of Amref Health Africa

26 Nov 2021 4 5

Jens Spahn

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Thehill

German Health Minister

22 Nov 2021 7 2

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“Omicron could prove a bigger test to Singapore's march towards living normally with COVID-19 than Delta did, but the mood isn't one of fear or even fatigue but poise.”

“It's important to emphasize that if omicron has a much higher transmission rate compared to delta, the absolute number of people requiring hospitalization might still increase, despite less severe disease in most cases.”

“Emerging data from South Africa suggests increased risk of reinfection with Omicron. There is also some evidence that Omicron causes milder disease than Delta.”

“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.”

“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'.”

“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!”

“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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