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It’s clear that the zone of greatest concern at the moment is the area of northwestern Syria.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The impact of the earthquake in areas of Syria controlled by the government is significant, but the services are there and there is access to those people, we have to remember here that in Syria, we’ve had 10 years of war. The health system is amazingly fragile. People have been through hell.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We seem to be very much caught in the headlines that there is nothing we can do, it's inevitable that we will going to see these waves and it's inevitable that hospitals will fill up and inevitable that the graveyards are going to fill up, it's not inevitable, it can be stopped, but it's going to take yet another effort from communities that are exhausted.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm all about forgiveness, but when you sit there, and you say you didn't make a mistake... that calls into question how you are going to represent me.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm always very afraid in any process where the conclusions start looking for the evidence to support them, and we're dealing with a lot of that in the last few days around her, the difficulty, I think -- and I think we have to say this quite plainly -- all hypotheses are on the table, and it is definitely too early to come to a conclusion of exactly where this virus started either within or without China.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's not as if nature wasn't telling us to be careful, to watch out, to get ready.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
In Sweden, Anders Tegnell and the team there have done a good job.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's tried to rely on individuals and communities to comply with the advice of government and it has tried to avoid imposing mandatory lockdowns, mandatory separation of individuals, in Sweden, Anders Tegnell and the team there have done a good job.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think science and government have a job to do that is to make the case. I think communities and people have a job to do, which is to listen to that case, and hopefully the result of that will be a widely accepted successful vaccine that could bring The Covid-19 pandemic to an end.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are grateful for and continue to engage with our technical counterparts in The United States on all matters related to science and public health.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Obviously, there are many people around the world who are very sick with this disease and we want to ensure that everybody has access to the necessary lifesaving interventions, we are fully committed as an organization, and with our partners to equitable access to life saving interventions.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is exceptionally important in this case, that the drug is reserved for use in severely ill and critical patients who can benefit from this drug clearly.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I'm absolutely convinced that that is occurring. The question is how much.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Whatever proportion of disease is transmitting from asymptomatic individuals, as Maria said, that is unknown, i'm absolutely convinced that that is occurring. The question is how much.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Let me also emphasize, if you are sick with a fever, with a cough and are sneezing, you should not be in public, you should be seeking the care of a medical professional and seeking a Covid-19 test, we need to be very, very, very careful that masks are not seen as an alternative to the other public health measures that are so desperately needed.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We don't know what the impact of this will be in undernourished children with chronic malnutrition, we don't know what the impact of this will be in in overcrowded refugee camps. So, there's a lot still to be learned.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This virus just may become another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away. HIV hasn't gone away, i'm not comparing the two diseases but I think it is important that we're realistic. I don't think anyone can predict when or if this disease will disappear.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This idea that... so what if we lose a few old people along the way ? This is a really dangerous, dangerous calculation.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We will be engaging in discussions with Gilead and the U.S. government as to how this drug may be made more widely available as further data emerges on its effectiveness.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are very, very keen to stress that IT tools do not replace the basic public health workforce that is going to be needed to trace, test, isolate and quarantine.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
So if that data and evidence is available, then it will be for the United States government to decide whether and when it can be shared.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The scientific question is, ´To what extent does having had that infection offer you protection against another infection?' that is the question that still needs to be addressed.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Many people are asking, 'Well why do we have to test the vaccines? Why don't we just make the vaccines and give them to people?' Well the world has learned many lessons in the mass use of vaccines and there's only one thing more dangerous than a bad virus, and that's a bad vaccine, we have to be very, very, very careful in developing any product that we're going to inject into potentially most of the world population. We have to be very, very, very careful that we first do no harm. So that's why people are being careful.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
A lot of preliminary information coming to us right now would suggest quite a low percentage of population have seroconverted (to produce antibodies), the expectation that ... the majority in society may have developed antibodies, the general evidence is pointing against that, so it may not solve the problem of governments.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We take thousands of samples every single week, and we will continue that active surveillance right the way through.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And in that sense, maybe that's our lesson for COVID-19, there is no exit strategy until you are in control of the situation, and you must always be ready to go back again and start again.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It takes anything up to six weeks to recover from this disease, people who suffer very severe illness can take months to recover from the illness.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have a massive global shortage, right now, the people most at risk from this virus are front-line health workers who are exposed to the virus every second of every day. The thought of them not having masks is horrific.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Saturdays I try and take time off, but then on Sunday I try to do maybe a nine - or 10-hour day.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Many people are asking,' Well why do we have to test the vaccines ? Why don't we just make the vaccines and give them to people ?' Well the world has learned many lessons in the mass use of vaccines and there's only one thing more dangerous than a bad virus, and that's a bad vaccine, we have to be very, very, very careful in developing any product that we're going to inject into potentially most of the world population.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There also is the issue that we have a massive global shortage, right now the people most at risk from this virus are frontline health workers who are exposed to the virus every second of every day. The thought of them not having masks is horrific.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are problems in the supply chain all along that chain. The simple issue is demand, there are shortages of PPE, shortages of ventilators and other products for the medical response to Covid. We also have to avoid shortages in other medical supplies, as supply chains come under strain.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Once we've suppressed the transmission, we have to go after the virus. We have to take the fight to the virus.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have to make sure that it's absolutely safe... we are talking at least a year, the vaccines will come, but we need to get out and do what we need to do now.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we really need to focus on is finding those who are sick, those who have the virus, and isolate them, find their contacts and isolate them, the danger right now with the lockdowns ... if we don't put in place the strong public health measures now, when those movement restrictions and lockdowns are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Blanket travel measures in their own right will do nothing to protect an individual state.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
But I also think the Iranian system is switching on. We are seeing a much more all-of-government approach...with a national action plan now, with 100,000 workers committed to this plan, it is much better that we understand the extent of the problem. So we commend the move towards more aggressive, targeted surveillance and we hope that will lead to the kind of control measures that will help push this virus back.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Look what's happened in China : We've seen a significant drop in cases, huge pressure placed on the virus and a sequential decrease in the number of cases ; that goes against the logic of pandemic. Yet we see in contrast of that, an acceleration of cases in places like South Korea, and therefore we are still in the balance.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The government is very anxious as you can imagine, as all governments are, to make preparations and are seeking our technical and operational assistance to help them get ready.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Right now, the strategic and tactical approach in China is the correct one.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have not offered advice to the IOC for the Olympics one way or the other, and neither would we. It is not the role of WHO to call off or not call off any event.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
(That) is to a great extent due to a huge public health operation in China, that ... gives us an opportunity for containment.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Bringing everybody together I think will give us a leap-frog moment in terms of coherence, priority-setting.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is not just simply scientific discourse, there are big issues to do with how that whole process is governed.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The unnecessary, unhelpful profiling of individuals based on ethnicity is utterly and completely unacceptable and it needs to stop.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And I believe the authorities in Taiwan are working very closely with China in the mainland and I believe there have been joint missions and joint approaches to the response.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are in agreement with Chinese authorities who have been clear and transparent that there is evidence of human-to-human transmission, the primary issue is to limit (that) human-to-human transmission.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
That has created the perfect storm that has allowed virus to get away from us and go on underground.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The interruption of outbreak response has led to a decrease in over 50% of alerts, a collapse in vaccination, a decrease in contact tracing, ebola was retreating and now it is likely to resurge.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The news today is fantastic. It gives us a new tool in our toolbox against Ebola, but it will not in itself stop Ebola.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
With regard to the government of France, we rely on the government of France for a lot of technical cooperation, but as of this moment WHO has not received any financial contributions from the government of France.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The virus spreads along social networks, family networks. And identifying those social networks and ensuring that both contacts and contacts of those contacts are vaccinated is a highly effective strategy.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Of note is the fact that while the disease has crossed the border, there has been no documented local transmission. The exposure of these individuals occurred in Congo, we haven't seen a panic reaction in the community.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We must get earlier detection of cases, have more exhaustive identification of contacts.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We believe, let me be very cautious here, we believe we are probably detecting in excess of 75% of cases - we may be missing up to a quarter of cases, we must get earlier detection of cases, have more exhaustive identification of contacts.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We'd be in a lot worse situation without this vaccine right now, but the vaccine can't protect you if you're not vaccinated.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Transmission within the healthcare setting has been a major factor driving this outbreak, unfortunately, women and children have been the unwitting victims of that reality.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Every time we have managed to regain control over the virus and contain its spread, we have suffered major, major security events, we are anticipating a scenario of continued intense transmission.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
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