COVID-19 pandemic

“They canceled the NBA, and I think that is the definitive tipping point of when it hit public consciousness that this is no joke”

“If he is able to salvage an enormous economic stimulus package, I think the odds are on his side that history will judge that he will have done a good job. And more than that, his odds of getting reelected are actually higher than in the absence of Corona.”

“I think that we will have this pandemic or this disease well in hand within two years. And so whether it's a combination of a therapeutic and a vaccine or just a therapeutic I just think that we're going to kick its ass.”

“This thing will be over by Memorial Day over now. Look, there'll still be a case here or there for sure. There'll be, I'm not saying there'll be zero cases of COVID, but there'll be zero pandemic understood as such.”

“In 45 days or so we're going to get to a point that we're starting to skate out of this thing”

“If we can get two hundred million shots in arms, this goes back to, I think, this tweet I sent in early January, December, we get two million shots in arms, we can be done with the pandemic based on, you know, how many the efficacy of transmission rate reducti…”

“I genuinely think it's a great thing that it got done so quickly. It's a miracle of science, and I think it's helped a lot of people. I mean, all of us. I mean, it's the thing that's going to end the pandemic. Largely already has.”

“Perhaps the pandemic was the accelerant we needed to get more of these to market faster and millions of people whose lives would have been lost or would be lost otherwise to cancer and other genetic diseases and so on over the years to come will be saved becau…”

“These new pills have, I think, a very good shot of doing it next year because they're protease inhibitors, so they stop the virus From replicating, and just, and even if the spike proteins mutate, it will not prevent these protease inhibitors from working. So …”

“Learning loss in our kids is going to be the single biggest thing we look back in 20 years coming out of this pandemic. And realize was the biggest price we paid for this.”

“He did the best job of all the governors during COVID. I think he did a better job than Trump did during COVID.”

“If we had responded to this pandemic differently, those issues would not have occurred. If we had just kept the economy open because we understood what was going on, We would not have reacted the way that we did, and we would not have nearly as much debt as we…”

“I think that from my point of view, there's a very high probability that there was some leak. That meant that the work that was going on to try and get in front of the next pandemic and understand what we could do to prepare ourselves and what vaccines can be …”

“Ignoring natural immunity, one of the most scientifically dishonest things a scientist could possibly say about the virus and the immunity.”