Our region 🌎 witnessed a large jump in new cases following last year’s holiday season and it took months for countries to reduce ⬇️ the incidence of new cases.
With the approaching holidays and upcoming summer vacations in the Southern Hemisphere, I want to take a moment to remind everyone that our individual and collective decisions chart the path of this pandemic 🦠
➡️ We’ve been here before.
This is a worrisome combination that keeps us vulnerable to the virus 🦠 and threatens our hard-fought gains.
Even though vaccination coverage is not as high as we’d hope, in many densely populated areas of the Americas 🌎, preventive measures have been lifted or relaxed.
And in many cases, public health measures have been relaxed, creating the perfect environment for this virus 🦠 to spread.
The future is unfolding before us, and it must be a wakeup call for our region 🌎 because we’re even more vulnerable.
While many Western European countries have achieved substantial vaccination 💉 coverage, they still have significant pockets of unvaccinated people.
And over the last few weeks, many European countries have reported record numbers 📈 of new cases.
In eastern Europe, relatively lower vaccination 💉 coverage has led to an increase in cases.
Throughout this pandemic, Europe has been a window 🪟 into the future for the Americas.
Time and again we’ve seen how the infection 🦠 dynamics in Europe are mirrored here, several weeks later.
I want to take a moment to comment on the trends we’re seeing in Europe, and what they mean for us in the Americas 🌎
