Ian Mackay
Australian immunologist (1922-2020)
Ian Mackay (22 March 1922 – 24 March 2020) was an Australian virologist at Queensland University.
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edit- It (travel restriction for the Chinese people due to the COVID-19 pandemic) has never been done before, there is no evidence this will do anything by shutting these people in. There is still the virus there.
- Ian Mackay (2020) cited in: "The U.S. Scientist who Predicted Coronavirus could Kill 65 Million People–Three Months before the Outbreak in Wuhan, China" in Electroverse, 25 January 2020.
- We need to get a better idea of how many people are discharged from hospital and a better understanding of how many mild cases have been missed (from this COVID-19), while we focused on more severe disease (until this moment (3 February 2020)). When we find that out will depend on China giving us more details, because that's where most cases are, and so far, a decent number of cases outside of China have not seemed as severe.
- Ian Mackay (2020) cited in: "Can the Wuhan Coronavirus Be Stopped?" in TheStreet, 3 February 2020.
