Vaccines work, they are safe, and they can help us end this pandemic 🦠
So please, go get your vaccines today or as soon as you can. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
We cannot get back the time we’ve lost to this pandemic, but we can control how the future will go.
Returning to family traditions, cultural celebrations and the moments that make life precious requires that we get vaccinated 🩹
So, please don’t delay, get vaccinated 🩹 today.
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective and they’re the best way to protect ♥️ ourselves, our families, and our communities from this virus.
I couldn’t wait to get my vaccination; I was so anxious for myself and my 95-year-old mother.
I can’t begin to tell you the relief I felt when I, my mother, my husband, and my children were vaccinated because I trust in science and appreciate life.
Reaching high vaccination coverage 🩹 depends on all of us.
So, I want to send a special message to the millions of adults in the Caribbean who have yet to receive their COVID vaccines:
I am a medical doctor, wife, mother, and grandmother.
Now is the time to strengthen vaccination campaigns, organize vaccination drives and empower key groups like health workers and religious leaders to become vaccine advocates.
Many places – especially in the Caribbean – also lack robust vaccination programs for adults, so it’s been challenging to ensure high coverage 🩹 among adult populations.
And countries should have plans to reach those living in hard-to-reach areas both in rural zones and in parts of cities, because they are too often the last to receive care 🩺
Countries should hire and train enough health workers 👨🏾⚕️👩🏽⚕️ to deliver COVID vaccines without sacrificing staff for other essential services.
We urge countries to bolster their cold chain capacity to ensure so that it can absorb incoming supplies 📦
