The Directorate of the Pan-American Organization of Health (OPS) signaled that the United States region should intensify public health actions such as social distance, the restriction of meetings, the use of mascara in the practice of limiting exposure to exposure population during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Our region and our world are struggling to control coronavirus. ”The public policies are not congruent with the severity of the situation in the demarcated areas, and many of us have related the control media that we know and that we have already heard from those who work in them,” he said.
Etienne agregó estar “particularly concerned about the weekly proceedings. In all our regions, especially in the North and South, many hospitals are operating to the limit of their capacity or very close to it ”.
Refresh the high occupancy bags in the intensive care units, oxygen storage in some areas and the lack of capacity to make progress at the speed with which new infections are debited to the “sustainable eye of the cases”.
Destacó added that “in the last week we have more than 2.5 million new cases of Covid-19 in the United States – equivalent to more than the number of world-class infections – and 42,000 people will lose their lives as a result of the pandemic ”.
“We will intensify public health actions to limit public exposure to this virus. “The social distance, the restriction of meetings, the constant use of mascarillas in public places and the frequent increase in manpower are our greatest hope for reducing the number of infections by Covid-19 at the moment”, says Etienne.
Vacunas no son enough
The vaccines against the Covid-19 will help to save lives and “possibly to end the pandemic”, he said, af este momento y en el corto plazo. The available doses are for use very limited and will continue to be offered in all parts ”.