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WHO expert says Covid-19 'has not peaked' in Americas

  •   Thu, Jun 25 2020 11:20:22 AM

Geneva, Jun 25 (IANS): A World Health Organization (WHO) expert has said the Covid-19 pandemic has not reached its peak in the Americas and the region is likely to see continued deaths in the coming weeks.

"I would characterize the situation in the Americas in general, and in Central and Latin America as still evolving and not having reached its peak yet, and likely to result in a sustained number of cases and continued deaths in the coming weeks," Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO Health Emergencies Program, said on Wednesday in a press conference in Geneva, Xinhua reported.

Ryan said that the pandemic is "intense" in the Americas in general, and "particularly intense in the Central and South America." Many countries experience "between 25 and 50 percent rise in cases over the last week," which means that the pandemic in many countries in the region "has not peaked" and that they are "still suffering sustained community transmission".

Meanwhile, Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical lead of Covid-19, WHO Health Emergencies Program, pointed out that the respiratory disease surveillance system in the Americas shows the positive rate for those tested for influenza-like illness or severe acute respiratory illness is between 30 and 40 per cent, which is outside of the active case finding for Covid-19.

"The Americas, they're in their flu season, so you will see an increase in respiratory diseases which will complicate the ability to care for them, because you may not know if somebody has influenza or if they have Covid-19, and so that will make the picture even more difficult to understand," she added.

"So we would really stress to governments in the Americas that there needs to be an all-government approach, there needs to be very clear communication with citizens around the measures that have to be taken for self-protection, for community response, there needs to be a very sustained investment in public health infrastructure, and the capacity to isolate our tests and trace an isolation and capacity to quarantine contacts," Ryan stressed.
  

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  • Dev, Mangalore

    Thu, Jun 25 2020

    WHO first predicted 2 & half million deaths in USA, to achieve that target they started an incentive to doctors to send a patient as covid to hospital & get $13000, If hospitals refer them to ICU then that amount is raised 3 times which is $ 39000. Later the CDC started a new method to label victims as covid without tests too. But they failed to achieve their target which stood at the latest as 120000. They changed their code after blaming it was wrong that prompted their response to declare it as pandemic which is not the case as less than 1% mortality rate of present.
    Now they are claiming a rise in infections & claimed a second wave which was debunked by US & they hid the fact that mortality rate is fast declining with the rise of infections.
    Most of the hospital staff are on leave since the lock down, many nurses, doctors are jobless, private hospitals are empty. The system isn't overwhelmed as per their claim or media creation was proving as false in US.
    CDC has now revised their code & now label this epidemic as lower than Flu outbreak every season. The total death rate in 5 years is proving to be at par with this year's data too.
    It is time to expose WHO, CDC & NIH nexus in creating Pandemic Panic & fear to achieve their agenda of proving the world that people are alive because of them, but without them human race has survived for thousands of years with God given Immunity without vaccines or any medicines created by modern technology.

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  • John, Mangalore

    Thu, Jun 25 2020

    Bill gates who does not have a medical degree. He predicted corona virus in 2015, probably then they must have this virus ready because of Trump's election it got delayed. If Democrat had come to power this virus they would have released in 2016 or 17. Also he is a main sponsor for WHO.

    All money making business either through expensive medicines from pharmaceutical giants, through hospitalization charges or vaccination for billions and the main objective is to decimate population and bring communist type one world control. Already they have managed temporary closing all religious institutions. Namesake only he does philanthropy that to few millions of Billions of dollars profited from this crooked business.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Jun 25 2020

    WHO experts are all Americans ...

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