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My whole message is that we’ve got to prepare for lab leaks or spillover events.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Will that be a compelling incentive for China to share more? No. They’re going to do what they’re going to do, i am not optimistic.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I wonder what this would have been like if had gotten it.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Your chances of getting infected are altered very little with the [booster], so you can’t say with any scientific integrity that protecting others is why you should get it, my focus is on people who are 65 and older and those who are immune-compromised. That’s who I think really should get.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
It doesn’t appear to be causing any more severe illness, and so I think that it’s a very different situation circulating today than had it been a year ago, there’s so much more immunity in the population that I don’t think that it’s going to take off.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to understand that we're now living with this virus, and no one has the perfect plan to get us out of it, for the past two years, if I had a nickel for every time someone said to me,' Well, if we just did it like China or we did it like Taiwan, we would control this.'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We know that over the next five to six weeks we're going to continue to see transmission of this virus throughout this country, much like a viral blizzard, with that, we are going to see a perfect storm in our health care settings.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Everything we're going to do right now is imperfect. Just accept that right now, we don't know a lot of the things we wish we'd know, but what we do know and what is emerging here is that this country is going to be in the soup in just the next few weeks with so many cases and so many locations, that we're going to see critical infrastructure as well as health care challenged.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We now have a much better understanding of why the booster is so important, it can have a major impact potentially on whether someone has a serious illness with either Delta or Omicron or a more mild illness -- so I'm convinced that this is just a matter of time before this change occurs.
Found on CNN 3 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.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What we need to do is have a way that we can make certain when people get on a plane that causes a border, they are not infected when they get on. They should be vaccinated fully. They should be tested. Then when they arrive [that] there’s a way to test them again and to follow up with them, this is something we desperately need. I think that will replace the travel ban in short order.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Overall, there's still a lot of human wood left for this coronavirus forest fire to burn.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The first thing is, we need to continue our programs of vaccination, but having said that, it is absolutely critical to get people vaccinated now, because... it's very likely that we will see additional surges, whether this fall or this winter. And the way to minimize those is, in fact, get people vaccinated. So please do that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are not sure how this is going to play out for the next four to six months, if... The Delta variant follows this pattern that The Delta variant's taken in other countries, we can expect to see -- particularly the Southern sunbelt states that are getting hit so hard right now -- actually show a really rapid decline in cases probably in two to three weeks. The real challenge is what's going to happen with all the other states where we're seeing increases... If they too light up, then this surge could actually go on well into mid-September or later.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
These are really about finishing a primary series. Think about childhood immunizations. We have vaccines for which we need three of four doses. What we found here is that the immune-compromised often didn't mount an adequate response at all. So we're still trying to build that. That is different than a booster dose where someone did respond and in fact over time that wanes, i think it was a great decision.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I believe that, in some ways, we're almost in a new pandemic.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The next 14 weeks I think will be the worst of the pandemic, people don’t want to hear that, but if we look at what these variants are doing, particularly this one from the United Kingdom, and see what it did in Europe, see what it’s done in the Middle East, it’s now beginning to start that here in the U.S. We are going to see that unfold.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have got a Category 10 hurricane staring at us. People don't understand that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What we can expect to see in the course of the next, I think, six to 14 weeks, is something that we haven't even come close to experiencing yet.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I worry desperately in the next six to 12 weeks, we're going to see a situation with this pandemic unlike anything we've seen yet to date, that is really a challenge that I don't think most people realize yet.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The difference is going to be,' Are we going to react now or later ?' do we put the brakes on after the car's wrapped around the tree, or we try to put the brakes on before we leave the intersection ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I worry desperately in the next six to 12 weeks we're going to see a situation with this pandemic unlike anything we've seen yet to date, this will happen, we are going to see a major increase in cases, the challenge is how many.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I worry that the Thanksgiving Day surge will then just add into what will become the Christmas surge, which will then make this one seem as if it wasn't so bad.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are going to see our hospitals literally on the verge of collapse.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have to understand we're in a very dangerous place. People have to stop swapping air, it's just that simple.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It takes much more than a declaration. It really needed follow through.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Long-term care is, unfortunately, an indicator of what's happening in Mark Parkinson community [ at large ] -- meaning that as much as Mark Parkinson try to bubble them from the virus in the community, it's a very vulnerable location, because Mark Parkinson have people who work there [ going in and out ], as well as family and friends of those who live there.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
At this point, we don't really have a national plan that really puts together what we're trying to do. We have 50 different states, the District of Columbia, the territories, all kind of with their own plan, we're at 70 % of the number of cases today that we were at the very height of the pandemic cases in early April, and yet I don't see any kind of a' This is where we need to go, this is what we need to do to get there' kind of effort, and that's one of our challenges.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Understanding that the whole thesis of contact tracing may just fall on this very issue [ of super spreaders ], if you have a small number of cases, you can clearly try to contact trace all of them, and you're not wondering if they're super spreaders or not. With many thousands of cases, you're always going to be trying to determine : what are the highest priority ? If you don't have a sense of who the super spreaders are, there's no way you can [ factor ] that in.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we could identify super spreaders early that would help but at this point we don't have any reasonable way to do that, there's no big double S on their forehead that says' Super Spreader' so that we can go find them. And that's the challenge.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This damn virus is going to keep going until it infects everybody it possibly can, it surely wont slow down until it hits 60 to 70%.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We have to understand that we're riding this tiger, we're not directing it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Think how much pain, suffering, death and economic disruption we've had in getting from 5% to 15% of the population infected and hopefully protected, wake up, world. Do not believe the rhetoric that says this is going to go away.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This thing's not going to stop until it infects 60 to 70 % of people, the idea that this is going to be done soon defies microbiology.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Singapore's approach has been by far one of the very best, what they are really showing the rest of the world is that this is just a difficult virus to beat back and keep down.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We now know that asymptomatic transmission likely [plays] an important role in spreading this virus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
At the very beginning of the outbreak, we had many questions about how transmission of this virus occurred. And unfortunately, we saw a number of people taking very firm stances about it was happening this way or it wasn't happening this way. And as we have continued to learn how transmission occurs with this outbreak, it is clear that many of those early statements were not correct, this is time for straight talk.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
She enjoys bridge and William Schaffner's an important part of her life and William Schaffner keeps her mentally active, but she's going to give William Schaffner up for a while.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I seriously doubt that the Chinese public officials have any data supporting this statement, i know of no evidence in 17 years of working with coronaviruses -- SARS and MERS -- where anyone has been found to be infectious during their incubation period.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The strain isn’t in the damn vaccine, and it’s giving cross protection.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Between 2000 and roughly 2008, the Somali community in Minnesota actually had some of the highest vaccination rates for 2-year-olds of any population in the state.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Measles is by far one of the most infectious of all the infectious disease agents we deal with, if you get a major outbreak started in a community, like the Somali-Americans, the sparks fly out of that fire and then start forest fires around the state, and that's what we're concerned about today.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
So, by about 2008, we started to see the vaccine rates drop as the word got through the Somali community that autism was linked to measles vaccination, in the years since then, Andrew Wakefield has actually been brought in several times to the Somali community here in Minnesota to actually give presentations supporting this information. ... His work has been retracted.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
When cases like this occur, it's critical that there be rapid epidemiological investigations to determine the likely location where the mosquito exposure occurred, only with that can you identify the breeding sites and eliminate them.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The path forward is not quite so simple, and many unresolved challenges and questions remain.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These patients may require extensive medical support for months to many years to come.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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