68 Quotes by Irwin Redlener

What we are looking at are extremely grim prospects for the future. This is a very overwhelmed system.

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

The translation of this is martial law in the United States,

Because the sheer size of the impact was so large, I think there is a greater sense of despair and loss that people are experiencing. This experience of dramatic, prolonged displacement will create a toll long into the future.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Many children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

The health care system is at least crippled, if not completely out of commission.

The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case,

The lethal capacity of this virus is very, very high, so it's a deadly virus that humans have not been exposed to before. That's a very bad combination.