"Does America Have a Future?" By Umair Haque
— Quotable quotes from MedPage Today's sources
by MedPage Today Staff June 26, 2020
"We have laws against defecating in the streets. Is that infringing on somebody's rights?" -- Theodore Mazer, MD, former president of the California Medical Association, on hostility toward public health officials and defiance of measures like wearing masks.
"I don't think we can prognosticate really about what things will be like for these patients in 6 months time." -- Benedict Michael, MD, PhD, of University of Liverpool, discussing the potential long-term neurologic and psychiatric complications of COVID-19.
"The virus is not going to disappear." -- NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, on a second wave of coronavirus infections in the fall and winter.
"It isn't just that women live longer; we also start showing the tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's earlier on in life." -- Lisa Mosconi, PhD, of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, discussing the trajectory of Alzheimer's disease in women.
"Schools just don't have the financial resources to meet the expectation of the CDC guidelines." -- Andrea J. Farina, EdD, assistant superintendent of the Upper Perkiomen school district near Philadelphia, on the challenges educators face in reopening schools in the fall.
"When we go out and see large gatherings with people not wearing masks, it's concerning because there's a sense that it's starting to be more widespread in the population." -- Robert Bednarczyk, PhD, of Emory University, on Georgia's relatively flattened curve starting to rise again.
"The last time I checked, the U.S. was still fighting coronavirus and losing." -- Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), speaking at a hearing called to examine "lessons learned" from the COVID-19 pandemic and to prepare for the next pandemic.
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