Virologist

🇺🇸Jonas Salk

Medicine

1914–1995

"Ingels: "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

"There is an invaluable treasure trove of useful historical data that has only just begun to be used to inform our actions. The lessons of 1918 , if well heeded, might help us to avoid repeating the same history today ."

Marion Koopmans

Medicine

b. 1956

"Whether it will be contained or not, this outbreak is rapidly becoming the first true pandemic challenge that fits the disease X category."

"It's still unclear whether that takes place . But if it does, that might explain why the disease is spreading so quickly."

🇺🇸Robert Gallo

Medicine

b. 1937

"Appropriating her work wasn’t the worst of it. This delayed the development of testing and spread the HIV epidemic through the world, killing millions."

"The 2019 novel coronavirus is a punishment by nature to humans' unsanitary lifestyle. I promise with my life that the virus has nothing to do with the lab."

"This virus is different from SARS-CoV, which caused severe illness in most infected patients. It appears that many patients have relatively mild illness. These relatively mild cases may recover after one week or so."

Joep Lange

Politics

1954–2014

"If we can get cold Coca-Cola and beer to every remote corner of Africa, it should not be impossible to do the same with drugs."