Quotes About Pandemic

Cinema halls must be preserved by us and by the government. That business is in trouble today with monumental maintenance costs of idle machines and empty seats. When the crisis of the pandemic gets over and it is safe for all of us to go back to that experience we must, in hordes.

Everyone is giving their 100 per cent and this coronavirus is like it is now a part of life. Whether we are on the sets or going out somewhere, the danger is everywhere, so we have to take precautions. As long as we're all taking precautions we are safe.

The Covid situation in India didn't deter me because I felt I would be safe within the IPL biosecure bubble.

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

The most useful definition we have is that an epidemic is a severe local outbreak, while a pandemic is a global outbreak that makes people very sick, and spreads rapidly from a point of origin.

Antigenic shift generated the deadly 1918 influenza virus and the swine flu outbreak of 2009.

The 2009 "pandemic," which was not really a pandemic at all, taught us that language is both a weapon and a handicap when waging a campaign against influenza.

We now think that the majority of deaths in the 1918 pandemic resulted from these secondary infections, not from the flu virus itself.

The third explanation for 1918's lethality is that the flu virus triggered an overreactive immune response that turned the body against itself.

Today, influenza kills fewer than 0.1 percent of those who catch it. Nearly everyone recovers. In the 1918 pandemic most still recovered, but the death rate was twenty-five times greater. So many died in the U.S. that the average life expectancy in 1918 fell from fifty-one to thirty-nine years.

The history of the 1918 influenza pandemic is depressing reading. It's like watching a horror movie that you have seen before. You know who the killer is, but you can't jump in and save the victim.

Medicine is conservative. Sometimes for the right reasons. Sometimes for the wrong reasons. We'll let people die from a pandemic because we don't want to give them a cure that might also kill them. It's easier to deal with the repercussions of a death by natural causes than a death from an experimental procedure.

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

Security incidents have gone up 5-10 times during the pandemic, so there is an increased need for security operations risk management, identity and access management, data privacy and compliance.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

We didn't discuss Covid at home and did activities like Tik Tok to divert our minds.

We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.

Haven't you ever heard of the 1918 flu pandemic? It killed more people than World War One and World War Two combined.

At best, Henry had only slowed an inevitable, history-shaping pandemic. Governments would fall. Economies would collapse. Wars would arise. Why did we think that our own modern era was immune to the assault of humanity's most cunning and relentless enemy, the microbe?

Had the Chinese been more open about the disease when it first appeared, many people might have spared.

Global Health Security Index," a sober report of a world largely unprepared to deal with a pandemic.