- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pandemic Quotes
Lessons from disease and public response.
These pandemic quotes examine disease outbreaks and public health strategy, from historic flu deaths to the value of early warning, related to Disease quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS, and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic.
- Immigrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every community, there are a number of 'social super-spreaders' among us. Long-suspected and emphatically confirmed by our data, these are people who - through dint of their job, or lifestyle, or perhaps even genetic makeup - would be more dangerous in the instance of a pandemic than the average person.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020