🌎 Over 148 million people in our region have been ill with this virus 🦠, and early studies show that some COVID survivors will suffer lifelong consequences.
 
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🌎 This is a tragedy of enormous proportions, and its effects will be felt for years to come.

Beyond the lives we’ve lost, the pandemic has had devastating impacts on the long-term health of our people.

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🌎 Nearly half of all global deaths were in the Americas – even though our region is home to fewer than 13% of people around the world.

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🌎 The region of the Americas has been disproportionally impacted by the pandemic.

With more than 2.6 million lives lost, we reported the most COVID 🦠 deaths out of any other Region in the world.

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🌎 It has been two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, just before COVID transmission became widespread in our region.

Since then, we have lost at least 6️⃣ million people around the world to this virus.

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🌎 Last week, COVID-19 cases declined by 26% across the Americas, with 1.1 million new infections 🦠reported.  

Deaths also dropped by nearly 19%, with close to 18,000 deaths recorded in the past week.

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🚨LIVE 🔊PAHO Press Briefing on #COVID19🦠in the Americas 🌎 March 9, 2022😷
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Since 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ journal articles are indexed in full-text in the prestigious 💻 PubMed Central databa…

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▶ Medical student Soraya Bruno, from Peru 🇵🇪, shares the role that the Journal has played in her academ…

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📅 Each year, around 4️⃣ special issues on the Region's public health key topics are published, gatherin…