(16 quotes found)
“Hollywood was a silver-nitrate finishing school for a whole generation with a faculty that included Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino.”
C. David Heymann
“[It was] the last word in mortuary chintz.”
“So that brings us to two countries that have interrupted transmission as the outbreak containment continues.”
David Heymann
“We are seeing that we are beginning to tighten in on the disease. ... Eventually, we hope that it can be contained throughout the world and not become an epidemic or an endemic disease.”
“There are some feelings that possibly live game markets might have been associated with some of the earlier cases, but this is only hypothesis.”
“Today, one of the most important means of spreading diseases around the globe is air travel.”
“What's dangerous about this is we don't know its potential. For the present, everything hinges on what we find out in China, as far as our projections [are concerned].”
“Hong Kong, with its dense population and fluid border with China, had one of the hardest outbreaks to control.”
“The governments (in Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, and Hong Kong) have reported cases, and we see in each of these areas, the case reports are decreasing and becoming more stable so we believe the epidemic may have peaked there.”
“We believe the outbreak has come to a peak in these areas because of information that ministries of health have given us.”
