WHO says the Americas are new COVID-19 epicenter as deaths surge in Latin America

[TomCADem]

Source: Reuters

BRASILIA, May 26 (Reuters) - The Americas have emerged as the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a Tuesday briefing, as a U.S. study forecast deaths surging in Brazil and other Latin American countries through August.

"Now is not the time for countries to ease restrictions," Carissa Etienne, WHO director for the Americas and head of the Pan American Health Organization, said via videoconference.

The Americas have registered more than 2.4 million cases of the new coronavirus and more than 143,000 deaths from the resulting COVID-19 respiratory disease. Latin America has passed Europe and the United States in daily infections, she said.

"Our region has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic," Etienne said, as other PAHO directors warned there are "very tough" weeks ahead for the region and Brazil has a long way to go before it will see the pandemic end.

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Between Trump and Bolsomo swapping talking points and hydroxychloroquine cocktail recipes, was this really avoidable?

[world wide wally]

1. Think about this for one second, MAGAts

YOUR hero, The Orange Avenger, has single handedly turned the greatest country on Earth into a shithole in the eyes of the world.
Any thoughts on that?

[Initech]

3. They don't care, and they want more of it.

Apparently they enjoy living in a shithole.

[EX500rider]

2. Yeah I was planning another vacation to Colombia this year...

...but right now they have banned international flights till Aug 31st.

[Initech]

4. Fighting this pandemic is going to be like playing whack-a-mole.

It will go away in one area and flare up with a vengeance in another. Then it will die down in one area and come back somewhere else. We won't get rid of it without a vaccine.

[NickB79]

5. And enough people are suspicious of a vaccine, it will never go away

It will become endemic.

[Initech]

6. Yeah get used to the digital world.

Fuck.