Sharice Davids Quotes

Every one of us has a small but critical part to play in the battle against coronavirus. From washing our hands to wearing a face covering on public transport and in shops, every time we take one of these actions, we push the virus further into retreat.

Confronting a dangerous pandemic requires containing spread wherever it is reasonably possible. Sensible measures such as universal masking, testing and widespread and rapid contact tracing can help. The best way to protect the vulnerable is to try to protect everyone.

The fact is we can't prevent people from getting the COVID-19 virus.

I took coronavirus very seriously.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

We know how to stop Ebola: by isolating and treating patients, tracing and monitoring their contacts, and breaking the chains of transmission.

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.

State and local governments in New Jersey are a critical line of defense in the effort to respond to COVID-19.

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.

I maintain social distancing and try to take all the precautions, sanitise again and again after a few minutes.

Limiting Covid's impact requires us to think differently about confronting respiratory pathogens in the winter.

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.

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

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

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

I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.

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

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.

With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

Pandemics happen. They have happened three times in the last 100 years…. They change the politics, the culture, the society. Pandemics do that …. Pandemics reshape history …. The likelihood of a pandemic is almost certain…. The consequences are worldwide.

Unfortunately, infectious diseases don’t pay much attention to budget cycles.

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

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

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