Quotes About Pandemic

The crown prince laughed. "But this is the flu!" he said. "We have the flu every year! We all get the flu, even the royal family!

The first is that it directly infects the endothelial cells that line our blood vessels. I'm not aware of any other respiratory viruses that do this. This causes a lot of havoc.

Howard Markel estimates that the total number of Americans who died of the 1918 pandemic was between 500,000 and 750,000; the

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Influenza robbed countless youngsters of normal childhoods. For them, attending school had been a regular part of life. The pandemic, however, forced local authorities to decide whether to keep public schools open.

For young survivors of the pandemic, life would never be the same. Like shell shocked soldiers, they bore emotional scars. These children had similar experiences and shared similar feelings of anxiety, of terror, of despair.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the failures of American (and of course many other) institutions. But it has also shown us something interesting: although Silicon Valley companies have for years only wrung their hands as calls for genocide, death threats, and misinformation have proliferated globally on their platforms, now, in the face of widespread disease and death in the United States, they suddenly found the will to moderate certain expression.

Democrats won't let you go to work, but they'll let you riot.

Philly would claim the greatest number of flu deaths of any city in the nation, 13,000 in all. Nor could we have imagined as we bumped along those Pennsylvania roads that this month of October 1918 would be the deadliest month in the history of the United States, with 195,000 people dying of flu.

Experts here now estimate at least one in every hundred Chelyabinsk residents is infected.

As the COVID-19 situation evolves, we need to make sure we have enough medical professionals to care for people in need.

Life is not promised forever. That's the biggest thing that I learned and I enjoy and I will take with me past this pandemic, is just being able to appreciate every little thing that goes on.

I want people to be aware, it's been proved dogs are not Covid carriers.

So, let's be clear, as we navigate this pandemic and future crises, people need to listen to the experts. But the experts also need to listen to the people.

Outbreaks are inevitable but pandemics are optional," says Larry Brilliant

we could view this global pandemic as a spur to global cooperation and action.

The most consequential by far was the bubonic plague, which began in Central Asia in the 1330s and spread to Europe in the following decade.

some of the countries that beat the virus had big governments, while others had small ones. What was the common element? A competent, well-functioning, trusted state—the quality of government.

At the end of April 2020, low-income and middle-income countries, which have 84% of the world's population, were home to just 14% of the world's known deaths from Covid-19.

It was called the Spanish flu not because it began in Spain, but because that country, being a noncombatant in the war, did not censor news.

Mate, my fat COVID body. I won't be able to do one chin-up.

As fearsome as Covid-19 is, it is not the Nazis.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.