This Q&A will stream on Facebook and on The Forum website.
As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Latin America is confronting a deepening crisis. Latin America and the Caribbean now register a million new infections about every six days and has reported more than 31 million since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Reuters COVID-19 tracker. With the vaccine rollout lagging and lives and livelihoods hanging in the balance, what is next for the region? Join Marcia Castro, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School, and The World’s Elana Gordon for this live online Q&A.
Latin America and the Caribbean now register a million new COVID-19 infections about every six days. With the vaccine rollout lagging and lives and livelihoods hanging in the balance, what is next for the region? As part of The World's series of conversations on the pandemic with Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, reporter Elana Gordon will take your questions and moderate a discussion with demographer Marcia Castro, on Tuesday, May.
This Q&A will stream on Facebook and on The Forum website, www.ForumHSPH.org.
As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Latin America is confronting a deepening crisis. Latin America and the Caribbean now register a million new infections about every seven days and has reported more than 31 million since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Reuters COVID-19 tracker. With the vaccine rollout lagging and lives and livelihoods hanging in the balance, what is next for the region? Join Marcia Castro, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School, and The World’s Elana Gordon for this live online Q&A.
It has put many to the test in unimaginable ways, with limited and often scarce resources.
A study of intensive care unit staff in the UK found that nearly half developed symptoms of PTSD and anxiety during the pandemic.
A bout with COVID-19
Sameer describes the coronavirus situation in India lately as a war that no one can escape, with oxygen shortages and rationing, and friends and family directly reaching out to him for medical advice and help.
Sameer said that almost all health workers in Nashik have gotten at least one shot of the vaccine now.
When India s vaccination drive started for health care workers, nearly 50% of doctors had already been infected.