Rick Bright Quotes

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

I'm tired of being behind this virus. We've been behind this virus from day one. We underestimated this virus. It's more powerful, it's more dangerous than we expected.

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

While Ebola's deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security.

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.

It's critical that we engage the federal scientific community to further our understanding of COVID-19 as we work to keep communities safe and reduce the spread of the virus.

Public health officials, researchers and states rely on CDC data to track the coronavirus and make quite literally life and death decisions.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

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

We can't predict when infectios diseases will break out, but their breakout is inevitable. That is why we must be prepared.

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.

A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.

There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state.

More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.

The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.

Access to humanitarian assistance and information are all the more important during the Covid-19 pandemic.

I've had to confront a lot of pandemics and infectious diseases around the globe.

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

Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary.

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.

'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.