“If this (COVID-19) transmission mode is contributing significantly then control becomes increasingly difficult. It's looking like this coronavirus is behaving very differently to SARS and MERS, and this is a big concern.”

— Jonathan Ball

Source: Jonathan Ball (2020) cited in " Coronavirus Update: Virus Confirmed In 15 Countries As China’s Death Toll Rises https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/coronavirus-update-virus-confirmed-in-15-countries-as-chinas-death-toll-rises-/" on IFL Science!, 27 January 2020.

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British virologist

Yoshihiro Kawaoka (1955) Japanese resercher

Yoshihiro Kawaoka (2020) cited in " New virus surging in Asia rattles scientists https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00129-x" on Nature, 20 January 2020.

“The local (COVID-19) transmission chain (in Hong Kong) has begun (as of 6 February 2020), and if we do nothing to control it, Hong Kong will become another mainland city that has suffered lots of cases.”

Yuen Kwok-yung (1956) Hong Kong microbiologist, physician and surgeon

Source: Yuen Kwok-yung (2020) cited in " Coronavirus: community outbreak declared in Hong Kong as government prepares to quarantine mainland Chinese entering city in hotels and facilities https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3049297/coronavirus-community-outbreak-declared-hong-kong" on South China Morning Post, 6 February 2020.

“Stop dey use COVID-19 vaccination as immigration control against Africans.”

Nana Akufo-Addo (1944) President of Ghana

Nana Akufo-Addo (2021) cited in: " Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo to UN - 'Stop dey use Covid-19 vaccination as immigration control against Africans' https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-58661993" in BBC News, 23 September 2021.

“This (COVID-19) virus is different from SARS-CoV, which caused severe illness in most infected patients. It appears that many patients have relatively mild illness. These relatively mild cases may recover after one week or so.”

Hitoshi Oshitani (1959) Japanese physician

Hitoshi Oshitani (2020) cited in " China’s health officials say priority is to stop mild coronavirus cases from getting worse https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3048993/chinese-officials-say-priority-stop-mild-coronavirus-cases" on South China Morning Post, 4 February 2020.

“I hope this (COVID-19) outbreak or this event may be over in something like April.”

Zhong Nanshan (1936) Chinese pulmonologist

Source: 2020

Zhong Nanshan (2020) cited in " New coronavirus cases lowest since Jan but experts disagree over peak https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/510517" on Malaysia Kini, 12 February 2020.

“Even before we knew it was a coronavirus, I said it certainly sounds like a coronavirus-SARS type thing. As soon as it was identified, I called a meeting of top-level people and said, 'Let's start working on a vaccine right now.'”

Anthony Fauci (1940) American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Response to the 2020 coronavirus epidemic, reported in Denise Grady, "Not his first epidemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci sticks to the facts", The New York Times (March 15, 2020).

“(We, the Government of China) must provide better support for fighting and controlling the (COVID-19) outbreak, while safeguarding the normal order of the economy and society.”

Li Keqiang (1955–2023) Premier of the People's Republic of China

Li Keqiang (2020) cited in " China faces dilemma as it tries to get back to work amid coronavirus outbreak fears following Lunar New Year https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049407/china-faces-dilemma-it-tries-get-back-work-amid-coronavirus" on South China Morning Post, 6 February 2020.
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“In the last few days the progress of the (COVID-19) virus, especially in some countries, especially human-to-human transmission, worries us (WHO). Although the numbers outside China are still relatively small, they hold the potential for a much larger outbreak.”

Tedros Adhanom (1965) Director-General of the World Health Organization, former Minister in Ethiopia

Tedros Adhanom (2020) cited in "Coronavirus: Death toll rises as virus spreads to every Chinese region" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51305526, BBC News, 30 January 2020.

“About developing vaccines against Covid-19: Look, we did something that was historic, we saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. We, together, all of us, not me.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Source: "Trump met with boos after revealing he received Covid-19 booster" https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/donald-trump-booster-shot-boos/index.html, CNN, 21 December 2021

“all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

“If this (COVID-19) transmission mode is contributing significantly then control becomes increasingly difficult. It's looking like this coronavirus is behaving very differently to SARS and MERS, and this is a big concern.”

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