The good news is that vaccine supplies 📦 are expected to pick up this year.
Donations from the U.S., Spain, Canada, Germany, France, and other countries total some 26 million doses.
In countries that do report detailed data, we see worrisome gaps.
For example, in the US and in Anguilla, vaccine coverage among the elderly 👵🏿🧓🏾👴🏼 is lower than in younger groups who are less at risk for severe COVID disease.
These data 📊 are crucial to designing targeted vaccination campaigns, maximizing the impact of vaccine doses, and saving lives.
Without these numbers, we won’t know what proportion of high-risk groups, like the elderly 🧓🏼👵🏿, pregnant women 🤰🏽, or health workers 👨🏾⚕️👩🏽⚕️, have been protected.
We have serious blind spots because we can’t see detailed vaccination data 📊
We encourage countries to collect and report data showing vaccination coverage by age, sex and by risk group, where possible.
And if we zoom in on low- and middle-income countries in our region 🌎, more than 54% of people have yet to receive a single COVID-19 vaccine.
While 14 countries and territories have fully immunized 70% of their populations, the same number of countries have yet to protect 40% of their people.
Despite our progress, vaccination 🩹 remains uneven in Latin America and the Caribbean.
A worrisome sign is that today, more than one in four people across the Americas have yet to receive a single dose of protection.
Our region 🌎 has some of the highest COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the world.
However, the Americas are the most unequal region in the world.
Thanks to the hard-fought efforts of countries throughout the Americas 🌎– & the generous support of donors like the US, Canada & Spain that helped our region secure doses –63% of people across Latin America & the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated against #COVID19
