Data from hospital 🏥 settings in the region shows that 90-100% of hospitalized patients were given an antimicrobial 💊 as part of their COVID treatment, while only 7% of these patients had a secondary infection that required the use of these drugs.
Throughout this pandemic, we’ve seen the use of antimicrobials 💊 rise at unprecedented levels, with potentially serious consequences for years to come.
Less than 20% of people have been fully vaccinated 💉 in Guatemala, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines—and vaccination coverage remains in the single digits in Nicaragua and Haiti.
Today, we have reached an important milestone: half of people in Latin America and the Caribbean 🧔🏿👩🏼🦳👩🏽🦱🧑🏾🦱👵🏿👨🏻 have been fully vaccinated 💉 against COVID-19.
As we near the holiday season, we remind everyone that it’s up to all of us to keep each other safe by getting vaccinated 💉 and following the public health measures that have proven effective against this virus, like social distancing and mask wearing 😷
As Uruguay and Chile have relaxed public health measures, they’re also witnessing a spike in COVID cases 🦠, even despite their high vaccination coverage.
It bears repeating that the COVID pandemic is still very active in our region 🌎
But countries across Central and South America are seeing a decline 📉 in new infections, except for Bolivia, which continues to experience rising cases 🦠
