Last year, there were over 1.5 million COVID-19 cases among children and adolescents reported in the region 🌎
Younger children 👶🏾 are less likely to pass the virus onto others, but risk goes up ⬆️ with age, and by the time th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
As with adults, if children 🧒🏿👧🏽 have underlying conditions like diabetes, or if they’re overweight or obese, they’… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
We’ve learned a lot about this virus 🦠 over the last year and a half, including about how children 🧒🏽👧🏻 and teens… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
As we talk about inequality in our region 🌎, we should also talk about a group whose needs haven’t received the att… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
When children 👧🏽🧒🏻 get infected, they tend to have mild symptoms or none at all.
But COVID-19 can cause severe il… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
We are encouraged that more than 30% of the people in Latin America and the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated 🩹… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Most South American countries are seeing continuing declines 📉 in COVID infections and deaths.
Meanwhile, infections have slowed in the Caribbean, although there are a few notable exceptions: Grenada, Barbados… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Infections are also surging in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Belize as many hospitals 🏥 are completely saturated with C… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
