Thread by @ISGLOBALorg

📢 We summarise the main #Covid findings:

🔹#CovidVaccines reduce by half the risk of #LongCovid.
🔸The real pandemic's toll: 15 millones deaths?
🔹60% of the world's population has not received any #COVID19 vaccine dose.

And more! Follow the thread👇

🏘️ A large trial in 600 villages in Bangladesh shows that:

✋ Promoting the use of masks reduces #COVID19 spread.
😷 Surgical masks work better than cloth masks.
👉 The interventions tripled the proportion of people who wore masks correctly.

💉A study in UK found that, in fully vaccinated people that get infected:

👍 The risk of #LongCovid was reduced by half.
👍 There were fewer hospitalisations (73 % less likely).
👍 And lower symptom burden (31 % less likely).

#Coronavirus #COVID19

💉What do other studies say?

⚠️ Unvaccinated adults are 17 times more likely to end in the hospital with #COVID19.

🏥 More US children and adolescents under 17 were hospitalised due to #Covid in states where vaccine coverage among adults was lowest.

#CovidVaccines

🌍 The real toll of the #pandemic to date could be 15 million deaths.

❗This is more than 3⃣ times the 4.6 million official deaths.

👉According to an analysis by @TheEconomist.

⚖️Over 5 billion #CovidVaccine doses have been administered worldwide 👉but only 1,6% of them have reached low-income countries.

😔Vaccine inequity is growing: Rich countries are offering #BoosterShots while 60% of the world's population has not receive a single dose.

Check out the latest scientific findings on #COVID19 summarised by our colleague @sarukhan in our website 👇

#COVIDUpdates #SARSCoV2 #Covid_19

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