Okay, one last quote from yesterday’s @WHO presser (and then I'll stop before people think this is actually Mike Ryan tweeting here).
He was talking about the many questions about #omicron that had no clear answer yet:
He was talking about the many questions about #omicron that had no clear answer yet:
@WHO “Those answers will come”, @DrMikeRyan said.
"But in the meantime, we need to be ready to deal with what is likely to happen, which is a large wave of cases, which may or may not be more or less severe, but which will in themselves generate pressure in the health system"
"But in the meantime, we need to be ready to deal with what is likely to happen, which is a large wave of cases, which may or may not be more or less severe, but which will in themselves generate pressure in the health system"
@WHO @DrMikeRyan “We need to do what we can to stop that, to reduce that pressure in the system”, he said. "We need to protect those who need to be protected as quickly as possible. And we need to prepare our systems for that."
@WHO @DrMikeRyan "We'll be the happiest people in the world to come back to you in 2 weeks' time or 3 weeks' time and say this is a much milder disease”, @DrMikeRyan said.
"But that's not how this virus has behaved up to now, that's not our experience through the three Waves of this pandemic."
"But that's not how this virus has behaved up to now, that's not our experience through the three Waves of this pandemic."
@WHO @DrMikeRyan "So I think the idea is to act now in the real world, while we collect the data to understand exactly what this virus is capable of."
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