Anne Applebaum Quotes

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

COVID-19 is a national crisis, and we need a national response to address it.

I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

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.

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

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

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

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

My professional background has prepared me for a moment like this - to confront and defeat a deadly virus that threatens Americans and people around the globe.

There were good-faith reasons to resort to extraordinary measures when confronting an unknown global pandemic. Most of us consented to the lockdown, even if reluctantly. However, that consent - freely given as an act of social solidarity - was not intended as a green light to giving up hard-won liberties, or a perpetual suspension of free society.

Covid spreads too easily to think it can be confined to the young.

We must remember that coronavirus is a new disease, which presents new challenges.

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

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.

When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.

Pandemics happen. When they do, they change the world.

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.

If the flu situation in your town is serious, cancel a large long-awaited party you had scheduled, but promise the guests in an e-mail that you will reschedule the party as soon as possible.

We have to keep up our guard. We won't get the risk of Ebola to zero in the U.S. until we stop it in West Africa. And Ebola is hard to fight. It requires intensity. It requires speed and flexibility.

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.

This virus is an enemy that the entire country underestimated from day one and we have paid the price dearly.

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.