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Recent quotes from state epidemiologists & health officials from around the world....
1/ “The virus has done the so-called 'harvest', has therefore accelerated the clinical path of fragile people. It may be that he has now consumed the basin where he could do the most damage and present himself with limited lethality” -V Demicheli, epidemiologist in Lombardy Italy
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“If there was a 2nd wave, then I think we will find ourselves in a different situation, namely with testing and tracing.
But I think WE CAN RULE OUT that we will have to go back to the tough measures”
-Minister of the Interior, Belgium
“If there was a 2nd wave, then I think we will find ourselves in a different situation, namely with testing and tracing.
But I think WE CAN RULE OUT that we will have to go back to the tough measures”
-Minister of the Interior, Belgium
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Denmark says no second wave and it won't shut down again:
"No country had yet seen an actual second wave, just a slight increase in R-numbers. The knowledge that we have today, I find it very unlikely that we’ll see a second wave.”
Kare Molbak
Denmark state epidemiologist
Denmark says no second wave and it won't shut down again:
"No country had yet seen an actual second wave, just a slight increase in R-numbers. The knowledge that we have today, I find it very unlikely that we’ll see a second wave.”
Kare Molbak
Denmark state epidemiologist
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“We will see more cases among the elderly b/c we have prevented the school children from creating herd immunity. In the end we will see more deaths. so we will see more deaths due to social distancing.”
-Knut Wittkowski
Epidemiologist
“We will see more cases among the elderly b/c we have prevented the school children from creating herd immunity. In the end we will see more deaths. so we will see more deaths due to social distancing.”
-Knut Wittkowski
Epidemiologist
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‘Our assessment now, & I find that there is a broad consensus in relation to the reopening, was that one could probably achieve the same effect – and avoid part of the unfortunate repercussions – by not closing.‘
Camilla Stoltenberg, director of Norway’s public health agency
‘Our assessment now, & I find that there is a broad consensus in relation to the reopening, was that one could probably achieve the same effect – and avoid part of the unfortunate repercussions – by not closing.‘
Camilla Stoltenberg, director of Norway’s public health agency
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“The strength the virus had two months ago is not the same strength it has today”
-Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital in the city of Genoa.
“The strength the virus had two months ago is not the same strength it has today”
-Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital in the city of Genoa.
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From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,"
-Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove (on 6/7/20) head of WHO's emerging diseases
From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,"
-Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove (on 6/7/20) head of WHO's emerging diseases
“We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.“
-New England Journal of Medicine
May 21st
-New England Journal of Medicine
May 21st
"Face masks in public spaces do not provide any greater protection to the population,"
Johan Carlson
Swedish Public Health Agency Folkhälsomyndigheten said at a press conference on May 13th.
Johan Carlson
Swedish Public Health Agency Folkhälsomyndigheten said at a press conference on May 13th.
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“Children are at minimal risk. It’s one of the few things that we can be really thankful about… but we have to acknowledge that they’ve suffered greatly through the nearly three months now of lockdown.”
- Dr Sunil Bhopal, NHS pediatrician and epidemiologist
“Children are at minimal risk. It’s one of the few things that we can be really thankful about… but we have to acknowledge that they’ve suffered greatly through the nearly three months now of lockdown.”
- Dr Sunil Bhopal, NHS pediatrician and epidemiologist
