Ipse by Tag - vaccines

Amesh Adalja

Inserted 2 years ago

“When you say that a disease [has] transitioned from epidemic to endemic, there are no hard and fast rules to determine that. Once COVID-19 loses that ability through enough immunity … I think the world is going to get to endemicity, but it's going to be on different timelines depending upon where you are at. I think that from the very first day in the COVID-19 pandemic, it was always going to be the case that this became an endemic respiratory virus. The main priority was to get more tools, like vaccines, antivirals, and monoclonal antibodies, that would help to reduce the strain on hospitals and health systems. Omicron has accelerated this process … we are basically at the cusp of endemicity and it may be the case that after Omicron surge washes over the countries of the world, we will be clearly in the endemic phase.”

Aljazeera

Infectious disease expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

29 Jan 2022 10 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

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

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

Soumya Swaminathan

Inserted 2 years ago

“Everybody wants to know about the boosters, when it's needed, how often it's going to be needed and so on. There are many factors that can influence this. One is the type of vaccine. We know that each vaccine has a slightly different performance and longer follow up is telling us the efficacy of the vaccines, particularly in preventing severe disease but also in preventing infection. The other big variable of course is, the variants of the virus that we are seeing. And we've seen that different variants have different abilities to be neutralized by the antibodies, or be able to overcome the immune response, like Omicron seems to be doing because of the mutations it has it seems to be pretty good at evading immune responses. The third factor of course is the biology of the individual, the age of the person, how strong the immune system is, whether there are other underlying illnesses which impact the immune system. And therefore when we make recommendations for a course of vaccination, we have to take into consideration all of these factors. There is some data now to show that there is a slippage in the protection due to the different vaccines at about six months or so, particularly for protection from infection, less so for protection from disease; they are still performing at 80%. But with Omicron again, the initial data coming in obviously showing that Omicron is very successfully able to evade immune responses and therefore needs higher levels of antibodies. For now we believe that boosters may be needed for people who have weaker immune systems, the older individuals, the more vulnerable people and whether a third dose of the vaccine is going to be it, or whether they are going to be need for additional vaccines like influenza every year, every couple of years, it's too early to say and we need to really follow the science on that.”

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World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist

20 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

Kate O'Brien

Inserted 2 years ago

“We have to make sure that it [higher shipments] continues. As we head into whatever the Omicron situation is going to be, there is risk that the global supply is again going to revert to high-income countries hoarding vaccines as they seek to protect their ability to inoculate their citizens.”

Aljazeera

Director of the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at the World Health Organization

09 Dec 2021 3 3

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

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 2 years ago

“If you're asking me what my personal position is, two or three years ago, I would never have thought to witness what we see right now that we have this horrible pandemic. We have the vaccines, the life-saving vaccines, but they are not being used adequately everywhere. And this costs … This is an enormous health cost coming along. If you look at the numbers, we have now 77% of the adults in the European Union vaccinated or if you take the whole population, it's 66%. And this means one-third of the European population is not vaccinated. These are 150 million people. This is a lot, and not each and every one can be vaccinated - children, for example, or people with special medical conditions - but the vast majority could and therefore, I think it is understandable and appropriate to lead this discussion now. How we can encourage and potentially think about mandatory vaccination within the European Union, this needs discussion. This needs a common approach, but it is a discussion that I think has to be met.”

Theguardian

President of the European Commission

01 Dec 2021 6 5

Ugur Sahin

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech

30 Nov 2021 6 4

Francis Collins

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Usatoday

Director of the National Institutes of Health

28 Nov 2021 4 3

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

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Director-General of the World Health Organization

24 Nov 2021 4 2

Guy Platten

Inserted 2 years ago

“This ill treatment may push many workers out of the sector, exacerbating the shortfall in labor that underpins the chaos. In the shipping industry alone, which moves around 80 percent of goods traded globally, there is an expected shortfall of thousands of officers in the next few years, according to a work force report from the International Chamber of Shipping and the Baltic and International Maritime Council. Left to depend on national vaccination programs, many transport workers, especially those from developing economies with less access to vaccines, will continue to suffer untenable work conditions.”

Nytimes

Secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping

17 Nov 2021 5 2

Eli Rosenberg

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Nytimes

Deputy director for science in the Office of Public Health at the New York State Department of Health

11 Nov 2021 4 2

Albert Bourla

Inserted 2 years ago

“These results provide further evidence of the benefits of boosters as we aim to keep people well-protected against this disease.”

Aljazeera

Pfizer chairman and chief executive

21 Oct 2021 5 2

Debbie Kaminer

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Professor of law at Baruch College, the City University of New York

18 Oct 2021 5 3

Dicky Budiman

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Indonesian epidemiologist who advises the WHO on pandemic recovery

18 Oct 2021 4 3

Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Professor in human rights law at the University of Liverpool

18 Oct 2021 5 3

Gordon Brown

Inserted 2 years ago

“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.”

Theguardian

Former Prime Minister of the UK and adviser to the World Health Organization

16 Oct 2021 7 3

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“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 have to make sure that it [higher shipments] continues. As we head into whatever the Omicron situation is going to be, there is risk that the global supply is again going to revert to high-income countries hoarding vaccines as they seek to protect their ability to inoculate their citizens.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“These results provide further evidence of the benefits of boosters as we aim to keep people well-protected against this disease.”

“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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