Quote(s) Of The Week - 1/11/22
“Vaccines remain the most important tool for controlling COVID-19 and helping to shift the pandemic to the next phase. Yet in the US suboptimal vaccine acceptance, at least partly associated with misinformation and political division, continues to be a major barrier…[and]…The US is entering what is potentially the most dangerous phase of the pandemic to date. The coming weeks may bring a triple respiratory virus threat: Delta, Omicron, and seasonal influenza.”
Carlos de Rio, MD – of Emory University School of Medicine in an article from JAMA Network on December 22, 2021, entitled: “Winter of Omicron – The Evolving Covid-19 Pandemic”.
"I now fear that what we have fought so hard to achieve globally — the right to free, fair elections, unhindered by strongman politicians who seek nothing more than to grow their power — has become dangerously fragile at home."
Jimmy Carter (D-GA) – the 39th President of the United States in an op-ed letter to the New York Times on January 5, 2022
"It's not leadership that resembles any of the folks I knew when I was here for 10 years,"
Dick Cheney (R-WY) – the 46th Vice President of the United States in a CNN interview with Ali Zaslav on January 6, 2022, on his thoughts related to the U.S. Congress’ reaction to the first anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Capitol