Thread by @mvankerkhove

Its all in data & analytics… while #COVID19 data is imperfect, its critical to regularly analyze, discuss and tailor our responses as, when and where needed. @WHO 1/11

Cases, hospitalizations, ICU capacities, deaths, risk factors, vaccination status, test +, vaccine efficacy, incidence, trends, transmission, attack rates, impact of interventions, research results, inequity, access, capacities, costs, etc analyzed by 100,000s around 🌎 daily. 2/

For 7 consecutive weeks, cases of #COVID19 have increased and deaths have hovered at around 64-65k/week.

Last week there were, again, >4 million cases reported to @WHO pushing us over a tragic 202,000,000 cases that we know about…Far more cases have occurred worldwide. 3/

But it is so much more than numbers and #COVID19 statistics provided by so many dedicated professionals & partners all over the world.

Each of these numbers is a story. Each represents a person, a family, a community, a society, a health or care worker, a future … 4/

As we have been saying, this pandemic is sadly far from over. More information on global, regional & national trends can be found here covid19.who.int and each week in our weekly @WHO #COVID19 epidemiological situation report (published each Tuesday). 5/

… So what do we do?

Do we give up?

Do we throw in the towel?

Hell no… We remain vigilant.

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We remain strong… we reinforce & scale up… our surveillance, robust testing with rapid results, we link surveillance with life saving actions of isolation & clinical care of those infected, support contacts in quarantine, we support our health and essential work force… 7/

…we protect our health workers with training & PPE, we supply therapeutics to those in need, we communicate all of this regularly, openly, honestly & with humility, we finance the response, we ensure vaccines reach those most in need everywhere. We fight for #VaccinEquity … 8/

We fight against misinformation, we issue updated technical guidance and support implementation, we listen, engage, empower, inform, educate, learn from communities… we innovate, we adjust our actions accordingly… We remain patient. 9/

We also mourn, we reflect, we hug those we can, we find joy, we go easy on ourselves, we remain hopeful. 10/

We are in this together and we have the tools to get out of this together.

The virus is evolving and the #DeltaVariant is challenging us even further. BUT remember that we can outmaneuver this virus with our FAR superior tools we have in our toolkit right now.

@WHO 11/end

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