# Management of COVID-19

Management of COVID-19 includes supportive care, which may include fluid therapy, oxygen support, and supporting other affected vital organs.

## Quotes

* Physicians’ and pharmacists’ first and foremost ethical obligation in situations of epidemic, disaster or terrorism is to provide urgent medical care and ensure availability and appropriate use of necessary medications. This requires close coordination with the entire health care team to help ensure patients receive the testing, treatments, follow-up care and medications they need. We applaud the innumerable selfless acts by health care professionals across the nation who are putting themselves in harm’s way to provide care to America’s patients.
** American Medical Association, Joint statement on ordering, prescribing or dispensing COVID-19 medications, March 25, 2020.
* Milan carries on! ... #italywontstop
** Beppe Sala, Milan's mayor, 27 Feb 2020 in All Of Italy — The Entire Country — Is Now On Coronavirus Lockdown
* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been caught on numerous occasions engaging in statistical manipulation in order to drive up a perpetual state of fear among Americans – all with the aim of coaxing people to get the Covid-19 ‘vaccine.’ But one thing the CDC appears entirely unwilling to do is to document the ways that natural immunity has made the vaccines redundant at best, and harmful at worst, for those who were previously infected.
** Kyle Becker, CDC Unable to Document a Single Case of Covid Transmitted from a Previously Infected Person to Another, Becker News, 14 November 2021
* The people of Norway celebrated the end of coronavirus restrictions on Sunday after an abrupt announcement from the prime minister.
** Paul Bois, Norway Celebrates End of Coronavirus Restrictions, Breitbart, 27 September 2021
* When the UN security council and the G7 group sought to agree a global response to the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts stumbled on the US insistence on describing the threat as distinctively Chinese... the focus on labelling the virus Chinese and blaming China pursued by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, helped ensure there would be no meaningful collective response from the world’s most powerful nations.
** Julian Borger in US awol from world stage as China tries on global leadership for size, The Guardian, March 29, 2020
* Vax mandates are an unhealthy thing for our democracy and represent a willful effort by government to exert additional control over an already cowed population. There is a direct line between the Patriot Act, mass surveillance, and vax mandates that claims “it is all for our own good” when it is more broadly for our own bad. This is about politics, not medicine.
** Peter van Buren, Biden’s vaccine order is about power, not health, Spectator, 8 November 2021
* The challenge came at Christmas when these new variants appeared – the South Africa and Brazil ones particularly. The changes the virus makes in its spike proteins actually throw off these antibodies
* So basically, most of the front-running antibody therapies for Covid which are the front-running therapies for Covid, I should say – so the great hope – are lost to the South African and Brazilian variants
** Nick Cammack, who leads the Covid-19 therapeutics accelerator at Wellcome according to "Monoclonal antibodies: 'great hope' in Covid treatments fails against variants" (February 2, 2021)
* The damage to health caused by each vaccine dose does not lessen over time. It continues indefinitely. In fact, CDC All-Cause Mortality data show that each vaccine dose increased mortality by 7% in the year 2022 compared to the mortality in year 2021.
** The Expose, CDC Data Reveals COVID Vaccine Could Shave Off 24 Years from Men’s Lives! 1 September 2023
* Without mass testing, tracing, and isolating, you cannot contain.
** Neil Faulkner, Mass Deaths, Mass Poverty, Mass Repression, co-written with Phil Hearse, 20 March 2020, Mutiny
* It's quite unusual for a government to publish a plan with things in it we hope we won't have to do. [...] It's far too early to be able to tell in that instance. What we can say for sure is that, right now, we do not recommend the cancelling of mass events, and schools as well should not be closing unless there is both a positive case and the school has had the advice to close from Public Health England.
** Matt Hancock, speaking in BBC Breakfast about the cancellation of mass gatherings during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. As quoted in British army on standby over coronavirus spread, 3 March 2020, Al Jazeera English.
* I want to stress that for the vast majority of the people of this country, we should be going about our business as usual.
** Boris Johnson, as quoted in Coronavirus: Up to fifth of UK workers 'could be off sick at same time', 3 March 2020, BBC News.
* Responses cannot be one-size-fits-all and will need to be tailored to local needs.
** Devesh Kapur, In times of a Covid-19 lockdown, protecting lives and livelihoods (March 27, 2020), Hindustan Times
* When the Vice President first asked me to help on the task force with different tasks, I asked the President what he expected from the task force and how I can best serve him and the task force. What the President asked is that all of the recommendations that we make be based on data. He wanted us to be very rigorous, to make sure that we were studying the data, collecting data. A lot of things in this country were happening very quickly, and we wanted to make sure that we were trying to keep updating our models and making sure that we were making informed decisions and informed recommendations to him based on the data that we were able to collect and put together.
** Jared Kushner, Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing (April 3, 2020), whitehouse.gov
* The President wanted to make sure that we had the people doing the best jobs, and making sure that we had the right people focused on all the things that needed to happen to make sure that we can deliver in these unusual times for the American people. The President also instructed me to make sure that I break down every barrier needed to make sure that the teams can succeed. This is an effort where the government is doing things that the government doesn’t normally do, where we are stretching, we’re acting very quickly. And the President wants to make sure that the White House is fully behind the different people running the different lines of effort to make sure that we get everything done in a speed that the President demands. The President also wanted us to make sure we think outside the box, make sure we’re finding all the best thinkers in the country, making sure we’re getting all the best ideas, and that we’re doing everything possible to make sure that we can keep Americans safe, and make sure we bring a quick end to this in the best way possible, and balance all the different aspects that need to be thought of while we do this. This truly is a historic challenge. We have not seen something like this in a very, very long time. But I am very confident that, by bringing innovative solutions to these hard problems, we will make progress.
** Jared Kushner, Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing (April 3, 2020), whitehouse.gov
* The President has been very, very hands on in this. He’s really instructed us to leave no stone unturned. Just this morning — very early this morning — I got a call from the President. He told me he was hearing from friends of his in New York that the New York public hospital system was running low on critical supply. He instructed me this morning. I called Dr. Katz, who runs the system, asked him which supply was the most supply he was nervous about. He told me it was the N95 masks. I asked what his daily burn was. And I basically got that number, called up Admiral Polowczyk, made sure we had the inventory. We went to the President today, and earlier today,the President called Mayor de Blasio to inform him that we were going to send a month of supply to the New York public hospital system, to make sure that the workers on the frontline can rest assured that they have the N95 masks that they need to get through the next month. We’ll be doing similar things with all the different public hospitals that are in the hotspot zones and making sure that we’re constantly in communications with the local communities.
** Jared Kushner, Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing (April 3, 2020), whitehouse.gov
* One thing I will say, just based on data, is that we’ve been getting a lot of data from different governors and from different mayors and from different cities. One thing I’ve seen FEMA do very, very well, over the last week or so, is now we’re getting real-time data from a lot of cities. People who have requests for different products and supplies, a lot of them are doing it based on projections, which are not the realistic projections. The projections change every day as we see the cases, as we see the impacts of the “stop the spread” effort that this task force recommended and the President has been pushing forward. So I do think that we’ll see that. Hopefully, there’ll be impact of that. And the task force has been working very hard, through the FEMA group, with Admiral Polowczyk to make sure that we’re getting the supplies to people before they run out, and making sure that we’re doing it in a proper way.
** Jared Kushner, Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing (April 3, 2020), whitehouse.gov
* And what they’ve done over the last 13 days has been really extraordinary. We’ve done things that the government has never done before, quicker than they’ve ever done it before. And what we’re seeing now is we found a lot of supplies in the country. We’ve been distributing them where we anticipate there will be needs, and also trying to make sure that we’re hitting places where there are needs. So I can tell you the people on the — in the task force, they’re working day and night. You’ve got a lot of people in the government. We recognize the challenge that America faces right now. We know what a lot of the people on the frontlines are facing, the fear that they have that they won’t have the supplies they need. And our goal is to work as hard as we can to make sure that we don’t let them down.
** Jared Kushner, Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing (April 3, 2020), whitehouse.gov
* At the time of the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus outbreak (in 2002-2003), we (Government of Macau) also did not prohibit the entry of people from Hong Kong and we refused to think of establishing a quota for entries from the neighboring Special Administrative Region for the time being (due to COVID-19 outbreak).
** Ho Iat Seng (2020) cited in "No reason to ban visitors from Wuhan, said Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng" on Macau News, 23 January 2020.
* The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!
** Donald Trump, Twitter, 24 Feb 2020. Quoted in Trump’s Statements About the Coronavirus (March 18, 2020) by Rem Rieder, FactCheck.org
* Nobody could have imagined a thing like this — a tragedy like this would have happened: the invisible enemy.
** Donald Trump, as quoted in Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Supply Chain Distributors on COVID-19 (March 29, 2020), whitehouse.gov.
* World Health Organization — because they really are — they called it wrong. They called it wrong. They really — they missed the call. They could have called it months earlier. They would have known, and they should have known. And they probably did know, so we'll be looking into that very carefully. And we're going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. [When asked later in the same press briefing if freezing money to the WHO during a pandemic was a good idea he replied, "No, maybe not. I mean, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but we're going to look at it."]
** Donald Trump, as quoted in Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Supply Chain Distributors on COVID-19 (April 7, 2020), whitehouse.gov.
* The federal government has done something that nobody has done anything like this other than perhaps wartime. And that’s what we’re in: We’re in a war.
** Donald Trump, as quoted in Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Supply Chain Distributors on COVID-19 (March 29, 2020), whitehouse.gov.
* Biden ordered private employers to fire unvaccinated Americans from their jobs as he blames the American People for his own failures. On December 4, 2020, Biden promised that he would never mandate vaccines, saying, “No I don't think it should be mandatory, I wouldn't demand it be mandatory.” Less than one year later, Biden imposed an unconstitutional federal vaccine mandate and threatened that any American who refused to comply should be “prepared to pay.”
** Donald Trump, as quoted in Year in Review: Joe Biden’s Covid Disasters, Save America, 28 December 2021
* We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors.
** Captain Brett E. Crozier wrote in a letter over which he was fired.
* This will be our Pearl Harbor.
** Us surgeon general Simple:Jerome Adams (20th second)
* From the perspective of continued understanding of the (COVID-19) situation, it is only at this time that everyone realizes it is so dangerous. If we (the Government of Wuhan) knew at first from the virus spread that it would be so serious, finding effective control and prevention methods of course would be good, but the problem is usually we cannot realize the severity from the outset.
** Zhou Xianwang (2020) cited in "Wuhan mayor under pressure to resign over response to coronavirus outbreak" on South China Morning Post, 23 January 2019.
* We (Government of Macau) appeal to the public not to go out unless it's absolutely necessary. That's the best prevention (against the COVID-19). We had no choice but to cancel the (2020 Lunar) new year celebrations even when everything was ready.
** Ho Iat Seng (2020) cited in "Macau confirms second patient infected with Chinese coronavirus" on South China Morning Post, 23 January 2020.
* We (China) are sure to be able to win in this battle to beat the (COVID-19) epidemic through prevention and control.
** Xi Jinping (2020) cited in "Xi Jinping warned of the ‘grave situation’ created by the ‘accelerating’ spread of coronavirus" on Business Insider Malaysia, 25 January 2020.
* We are now (26 January 2020) in a critical period of prevention and control (of the COVID-19).
** Ma Xiaowei (2020) cited in "China Urges Calm Over Virus During ‘Critical Period’" on The Wall Street Journal, 26 January 2020.
* Momentum of the Wuhan virus epidemic outbreak may decline in 20 days (since 26 January 2020) based on the current prevention and control measures of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.
** Wen Yumei (2020) cited in "Expert believes China's control measures on Wuhan virus will take effect in 20 days" on The Star Online, 27 January 2020.
* We (World Health Organization (WHO)) are working 24/7 to support China and its people during this difficult time (COVID-19 pandemic) and remain in close contact with affected countries, with our regional and country offices deeply involved. WHO is updating all countries on the situation and providing specific guidance on what to do to respond.
** Tedros Adhanom (2020) cited in "WHO chief arrives in China for talks on coronavirus crisis as death toll jumps" on South China Morning Post, 27 January 2020.
* You (medical staffs who attain to COVID-19 patients treatment) are trying every means to save lives. When you are putting your efforts to save lives, you have to protect yourselves too.
** Li Keqiang (2020) cited in "China coronavirus: Premier Li Keqiang arrives in Wuhan to lead fight against deadly outbreak" on South China Morning Post, 27 January 2020.
* We (Centers for Disease Control) are warning that anyone who refuses to cooperate with our quarantine officers or is disrespectful toward them (for the examination of COVID-19) will be strictly punished according to the law. Disease prevention is not a game, so we will impose the heaviest punishment for obstructing public officers in discharging their duties.
** Chen Shih-chung (2020) cited in "Taiwan confirms fifth new virus case" on Taipei Times, 28 January 2020.
* There are two keys to tackling the (COVID-19) epidemic: early detection and early isolation. They are the most primitive and most effective methods.
** Zhong Nanshan (2020) cited in "Wuhan virus outbreak may reach peak in a week or about 10 days, says expert" on The Star Online, 29 January 2020.
* Those (anyone who returns from Wuhan being isolated for 14 days with all necessary medical attention) are the sorts of measures that will protect countries from the introduction of the (COVID-19) virus and onward transmission. There's always a balance between the draconian measures of public health and what people might want to do, and obviously it's regrettable if people who turn out not to have the virus are quarantined unnecessarily.
** Mark Woolhouse (2020) cited in "Coronavirus Cases In China Eclipse SARS As Evacuations Begin" on Huffpost, 29 January 2020.
* The main reason for this (global emergency) declaration (of COVID-19) is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries. Our (World Health Organization) greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems.
** Tedros Adhanom (2020) cited in "China virus death toll rises to at least 212 as WHO declares global emergency" on The Star Online, 31 January 2020.
* The moment we heard about this (COVID-19) outbreak, we started to put our feelers out to get access to these isolates.
** Vincent Munster (2020) cited in "China coronavirus: labs worldwide scramble to analyse live samples" on Nature, 31 January 2020.
* We (China) are still at a very critical stage in fighting the (COVID-19) Coronavirus. International solidarity is extremely important and for that purpose all countries should behave in a responsible manner.
** Zhang Jun (2020) cited in "China virus death toll rises to at least 212 as WHO declares global emergency" on The Star Online, 31 January 2020.
* Closing the (Hong Kong's) border entirely (from Mainland China) is the only effective way to prevent the spread of the (COVID-19) virus.
** Ho Pak-leung (2020) cited in "Hong Kong hospital strike kicks off as top doctor backs mainland China border closure calls amid coronavirus fears" on South China Morning Post, 3 February 2020.
* The (COVID-19) outbreak will probably continue for at least several more months. It would be best that the (Japan) national government comes up with a plan that accounts for the long-term issues.
** Koji Wada (2020) cited in "Japan must prepare for 'inevitable' coronavirus spread, expert says" on The Japan Times, 4 February 2020.
* Building new hospitals or shelters alone (to treat COVID-19-infected people) is not adequate. It will also need to be complemented by community strategies, such as limiting group activities, and personal hygiene practices.
** Winnie Yip (2020) cited in "Coronavirus: Wuhan Communist Party official apologises for failure to provide patients treatment" on South China Morning Post, 6 February 2020.
* The public has criticised us (Wuhan government) a lot ... why? It was because some of our work was not done well. What have we not done well? At present, the contradiction between supply and demand of hospital beds has remained conspicuous. Honestly, we are in pain and feel regrettable that a lot of the patients who have been confirmed infected or were suspected to have contracted the (COVID-19) coronavirus were unable to receive proper treatment at hospitals. This problem definitely has remained unresolved.
** Hu Lishan (2020) cited in "Coronavirus: Wuhan Communist Party official apologises for failure to provide patients treatment" on South China Morning Post, 6 February 2020.
* The local (COVID-19) transmission chain (in Hong Kong) has begun (as of 6 February 2020), and if we do nothing to control it, Hong Kong will become another mainland city that has suffered lots of cases.
** Yuen Kwok-yung (2020) cited in "Coronavirus: community outbreak declared in Hong Kong as government prepares to quarantine mainland Chinese entering city in hotels and facilities" on South China Morning Post, 6 February 2020.
* In order to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus (in Japan), commuting in shifts and teleworking need to be widely exercised across society. We will call on the corporate world to actively implement (the measures).
** Hiroshi Kajiyama (2020) cited in "Flexible working hours key to fighting Covid-19: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe" on Hindustan Times, 25 February 2020.
* The health of the population (due to COVID-19 outbreaks) takes precedence over economic interest.
** Jens Spahn (2020) cited in: "Coronavirus is now a 'worldwide pandemic,' German health minister says" in DW. 4 March 2020
* My administration has done a job on really working across government and with the private sector, and it’s been incredible. It’s a beautiful thing to watch, I have to say. Unfortunately, the end result of the group we’re fighting — which are hundreds of billions and trillions of germs, or whatever you want to call them — they are bad news. This virus is bad news and it moves quickly, and it spreads as easily as anything anyone has ever seen.
** Donald Trump, as quoted in Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Supply Chain Distributors on COVID-19 (March 29, 2020), whitehouse.gov.
* Herd immunity, protect the economy, and if that means some pensioners die, too bad.
** Dominic Cummings, senior adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking about pandemics containment strategy on a government meeting. Coronavirus: ten days that shook Britain — and changed the nation for ever, 22 March 2020.
* So, right now, as long as you wash your hands more often, that is the number one thing you can do to keep you and the country safe. [...] The scientific advice is that the impact of shaking hands is negligible and what really matters is that you wash your hands more often.
** Matt Hancock speaking in BBC Breakfast, as quoted in British army on standby over coronavirus spread, 3 March 2020, Al Jazeera English.
* I don't think there's any need to panic (because of the COVID-19 pandemic). We manage these things the same as we manage influenza. The sensible thing (to do) at this point is to increase awareness of what is going on overseas. We can't treat the (COVID-19) virus at the present time, so what we can do is use simple personal protection and public health interventions ... should it enter New Zealand.
** Lance Jennings (2020) cited in: "No NZ airport screening for cases of China's coronavirus" in Stuff, 22 January 2020.
* I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and I continue to shake hands. People obviously can make up their own minds but I think the scientific evidence is… our judgement is that washing your hands is the crucial thing.
** Boris Johnson at a press conference, as quoted in U.K. Leader Boris Johnson Boasts He Has Shaken Hands With Coronavirus Patients by Khaleda Rahman, 3 March 2020, Newsweek.
* Normal surgical masks are sufficient to guard against the (COVID-19) virus.
** Chen Shih-chung (2020) cited in "WUHAN VIRUS / Taiwan closes borders to current, former Wuhan residents" on Focus Taiwan, 23 January 2020.
* No human-to-human transmission of the (COVID-19) novel coronavirus has been reported in the country (Malaysia, as of 2 February 2020), and thus there is no need for the public to panic and start wearing masks. However, those with such symptoms, must wear the masks to prevent infecting others, as it is also the influenza season. What is more important is to keep on washing hands properly using soap.
** Lee Boon Chye (2020) cited in "No need to wear face masks unless you have flu-like symptoms, says Deputy Health Minister" on The Star Online, 2 February 2020.
* We believe the (Hong Kong) government should take the lead (by not wearing surgical mask unless those feeling unwell, working in frontline services or attending crowded places), so we have issued internal guidelines asking all departments to follow this in wearing masks. The goal is to save stocks for medical staff (to deal with patients infected with COVID-19).
** Carrie Lam (2020) cited in "Coronavirus: Carrie Lam orders Hong Kong officials not to wear masks to save stocks for medical workers" on South China Morning Post, 4 February 2020.
* The confirmed local (COVID-19 infection) cases (in Taiwan so far as of 5 February 2020) are mostly people who were infected overseas before returning to Taiwan and the only two indigenous cases are people who were infected by other members of their household. Therefore, the (Central Epidemic Command) center does not recommend foreign nationals traveling in Taiwan wear masks, but they can prepare masks and bring them on their own if they are concerned.
** Chen Shih-chung (2020) cited in "Virus Outbreak: Chunghwa Post to distribute masks" on Taipei Times, 6 February 2020.
* I want to advise everyone to wear a face mask at all times when travelling in an aircraft and also in confined spaces such as inside airports (to protect oneself against COVID-19).
** Chen Shih-chung (2020) cited in "Taiwan says coronavirus couple likely infected on Hong Kong flight to Italy" on Channel News Asia, 7 February 2020.
* What we can do at this moment (COVID-19 outbreak) is gain a scientific understanding of the disease and protect ourselves. Wear a mask when you go out.
** Wang Ying (2020) cited in "Chinese Medicine Experts Offer Opinions on Protection against Coronavirus" on Macau Daily Times, 7 February 2020.
* Three weeks ago, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee privately warned dozens of donors about the harrowing impact the coronavirus would have on the United States, while keeping the general public in the dark. In a secret recording obtained by NPR, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr is heard giving attendees of a club luncheon a much different message than most federal government officials, especially President Trump, were giving the public at the time... Sen. Burr sold off up to $1.56 million in stock on February 13th, as he was reassuring the public about coronavirus preparedness.
** Secret Recording Exposes Intelligence Chairman Warning Donors About Coronavirus 3 Weeks Ago, By Peter Wade, Rolling Stone , (19 March 2020)
* There’s one thing that I can tell you about this... It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history... It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic.... There will be, I’m sure, times that communities... have a transmission rate where they say, let’s close schools for two weeks, everybody stay home.
** Sen. Richard Burr Quoted in Secret Recording Exposes Intelligence Chairman Warning Donors About Coronavirus 3 Weeks Ago, By Peter Wade, Rolling Stone , (19 March 2020)

### 2021 quotes

* While Regeneron’s currently authorized REGEN-COV antibodies have diminished potency against Omicron, they are active against Delta, which currently is the most prevalent variant in the U.S.
** Regeneron says antibody therapy loses potency against omicron (12/16/21 09:43 AM EST)

## See also

* Coronavirus recession
* COVID-19 vaccine
* Disease X
* Hydroxychloroquine
* Shortages related to the COVID-19 pandemic

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