📢 "One of the characteristics that sets Omicron 🦠 apart seems to be less severe symptoms. Even so, Omicron infections can be lethal, especially for the immunocompromised and the unvaccinated", @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19 https://t.co/KwxXDhMX8V
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📢 "Infections are accelerating across every corner of the 🌎 Americas, and once again, our health systems are being challenged. Nonetheless, thanks to the protective power of 💉 vaccines, #COVID19 deaths are not rising with the current wave of infections", @DirOPSPAHO https://t.co/v1OWHIWT3h
🌎 Vaccination, testing of symptomatic individuals, and ensuring health workers are among first in line for additional vaccine doses are key to safeguard health systems.
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📍 Where can you get a #COVID19 vaccine 🩹?
📞 Call or check the website 👨🏾💻 of your ministry of health or local community health center.
🌎 Our collective actions against this virus have the power to change its course
Whether we are fighting for vaccine equity, supporting our health workers, or doing our part to ⬇️ the risk of transmission, SOLIDARITY will pave our way out of the pandemic
@DirOPSPAHO 🌎 Saving lives remains our highest priority.
✳️ Once again, we must slow down new infections to avoid overwhelming our health systems.
✳️ Governments must act, guided by evidence, to limit new infections
🌎 While COVID-19 continues to spread in our region, we remind everyone that our goal has always been to protect each other from the most serious symptoms so we can save lives and prevent deaths from infections – @DirOPSPAHO twitter.com/pahowho/status…
Today, all eyes are on Omicron, which has reached nearly every country in the world. 42 countries and territories in all subregions of the Americas, North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, have already detected the Omicron variant – @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19 twitter.com/pahowho/status…
With a virus as transmissible as this one, effective and well-fitted masks help keep us all safe, so we urge countries to provide their health workers with the PAHO/WHO recommended protective equipment including 😷 masks with the highest filtration – @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
