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Over the last week, more than 1.2 million COVID-19 🦠 cases and 20,000 COVID-related deaths were reported in the Americas 🌎
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@DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
COVID infections 🦠 are accelerating in North America, driven primarily by a surge in cases in the southern and eastern United States 🇺🇸 and in central Mexico 🇲🇽
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@DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
Over the last week, our region 🌎 reported over 967,000 new cases 🦠 and 22,000 deaths, a slight decrease from the previous week.
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@DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
More and more, disease trends are showing a region divided by vaccine 💉 access.
In countries 🌎 with adequate vaccine supply 📦, infections are decreasing 📉; in places where vaccine coverage is still low, infections remain high📈
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In countries 🌎 with adequate vaccine supply 📦, infections are decreasing 📉; in places where vaccine coverage is still low, infections remain high📈
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As of this week, our region 🌎 reported nearly 74 million cases and 1.9 million deaths from COVID-19 🦠, accounting for more than a third of COVID cases and more than 40% of deaths reported worldwide this week.
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And while new cases are down ⬇️ nearly 20% from last week, many countries – including the U.S. 🇺🇸– are seeing a resurgence of infections 🦠
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I guess I better speak out on my own thread. @GRamsey_LatAm is gushing over how PAHO/WHO are "intervening" in the disastrous Venezuelan health situation.
Dude: I have been watching #measles and #malaria case numbers here in South America for the past few years.
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Dude: I have been watching #measles and #malaria case numbers here in South America for the past few years.
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The deterioration of the health situation in South America is glaringly evident.
A couple of years ago, I watched #malaria case numbers climb over 240,000 in Venezuela, after having been much lower than that for years, and almost eradicated in the 1950s and 1960s.
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A couple of years ago, I watched #malaria case numbers climb over 240,000 in Venezuela, after having been much lower than that for years, and almost eradicated in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Soon thereafter, I personally witnessed the #migration out of #Venezuela , which had once been the most prosperous South American nation.
I saw some people so thin they could have been in the horrors of WW2.
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I saw some people so thin they could have been in the horrors of WW2.
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