Health Emergency Quotes

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

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

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

The Ebola epidemic is the worst health emergency there has been in modern times.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has created an unprecedented situation around the world.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

The CDC and the federal government have already admitted that they have failed to get ahead of the spread of Ebola in Texas, and we aren't going to let that happen in Florida.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'

The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty.

Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

You can be sure that Judicial Watch is investigating and monitoring the responses of our government to the coronavirus threat.

Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities. Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.

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

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

The Ebola virus is unlike any health crisis we have ever experienced and needs a response unlike anything we have ever seen.

Zika is an addressable threat. While it falls outside of the regular routine of public health preparedness, we shouldn't be scrambling for new resources each time a threat like Zika starts to emerge.

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.