"Though cases and deaths have been ⬇️ falling, #COVID19 is still among us and there is no indication that it will go away soon.
🚨 The risks are significant 🚨 if we simply let the virus continue to spread freely" @DirOPSPAHO https://t.co/xRe93mPb52

"Let's Make History by Telling Our Stories" is an open call to write stories about health from Latin America and the Caribbean on water quality, handwashing 🧼, or the collection of expired antibiotics 💊.

🗓️ Deadline to apply: 23 September

More info 👉 paho.org/en/call-2022-l… https://t.co/RtYtdpvvm3

🌎 As COVID-19 continues to impact the region of the Americas, dwindling vaccination rates leave countries susceptible to polio and other preventable diseases.
ℹ️ Read more at: paho.org/en/news/21-9-2… https://t.co/xTo8cnjHFI

🌎 Next week, I will have the honor of joining Ministers of Health from across the region at the 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference. #CSP30

A landmark event that brings together the health leadership of our region every five years. paho.org/en/governing-b…

🌎 We urge all countries in the region to strengthen surveillance and proactively reach the unvaccinated with a polio vaccine 🩹. @DirOPSPAHO

🌎 PAHO has alerted all Heads of States of the Region with regards to the risk and threat and the need to catch up on polio immunization as a matter of urgency 🚨.

We must not take the lifesaving power of vaccines for granted. @DirOPSPAHO

🌎 And public health messaging is reaching at-risk communities in their languages.

PAHO is in close contact with the United States, and we have issued several alerts to Member States so that they remain vigilant. @DirOPSPAHO

🌎 We commend the United States for its swift public health response. Disease surveillance has been intensified. Polio immunization campaigns are targeting those who may not have received a complete vaccination series against polio. @DirOPSPAHO

🌎 Polio is not a treatable disease. Prevention is the only option. And prevention is only possible with vaccines 🩹.

As we saw in New York State, polioviruses can appear and spread quickly and quietly in communities with insufficient vaccine coverage. @DirOPSPAHO

🌎 And last week, the virus 🦠 was indeed found to be circulating through these communities, officially constituting an outbreak in the region. @DirOPSPAHO