Laurie Garrett Quotes
- Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's…
- At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
- In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious…
- [W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are…
- Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked…
- Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations…
- There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for…