Participating 🌎 will need new policies to make this a priority – both so they have the technical competencies, like… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
For this to work, countries 🌎 must coordinate across sectors to strengthen their capacity to produce new technologies.
But building our region’s 🌎production capacity will take time ⏰
And our success rests on three things ⬇️
🔸coordin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
…establishing a cooperative process that can take advantage of existing capacities in different countries, and en… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
So far, over 30 public and private companies and institutions in the Americas 🌎 have expressed their desire to part… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Together with the @WHO, we are working to bring mRNA vaccine 💉 technology into our region.
mRNA 💉 are some of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🔸PAHO is already spearheading initiatives to help reduce our dependency on pharmaceutical imports.
We must build on this legacy to protect our people 👵🏻🧓🏾🧑🏿🦱👧🏾👴🏻from the threat of COVID, and from future health risks.
Today, four countries in our region are already involved in manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines 💉 and Brazil and Cuba a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Just as manufacturers adapted quickly to produce some of the PPE 🥽 and ventilators our region needed earlier in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
