Kim Reynolds Quotes

What the people want the most is to keep a balance between preventing further infections of the novel coronavirus and promoting economic activities.

Of course, health is the most important thing, but shutting down the entire economy for months is also not an option. Everyone should use their common sense.

I know there's a lot of opinions about Covid-19 and I have mine but I just know opinions ain't worth risking your life and others. Just stay home.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

There is a cost for investing in pandemic preparedness, but a much bigger cost for not investing in it.

We have paid a huge price for our media being unable to frame the virus as a problem with a time dimension and one necessitating trade-offs.

It's essential that we have a coordinated, well-resourced government response to the coronavirus to keep Kansas communities safe.

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

The response to coronavirus has shown what can be done when governments put their mind to it.

Covid-19 may be here for a long time.

Every ounce of resources in our state should be focused on defeating the hidden enemy we all have in common: COVID-19.

I took coronavirus very seriously.

Our nation absolutely has what it takes to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic that's claimed tens of thousands of our loved ones. We have the talent, resources and technology.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

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.

Mr. Speaker, it is matter of common knowledge that an epidemic of alarming proportions is prevailing throughout the country. Out of an abundant precaution the Senate has ordered the galleries closed, which action, I understand, meets with the approval of the medical authorities, and so I ask unanimous consent that the Speaker be instructed to close the galleries of this House until further action shall be taken by the House.

History has told us that no one can stop a pandemic. The question is: when is it going to happen? I don't think anybody has the answer to it. We have to be on the lookout for any time, any day.

There is a cost to every decision, and whether or not you impose a public health order has costs to industry and the public.

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

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.

The Health Commissioner has given us good advice. It's smarter to keep the COVID patients separate. You don't want a person who goes into a hospital with one situation developing COVID because they happened to be exposed.