Perspectives on Battling COVID-19 in Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Global Health, Milken Institute of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.
² 2Division of Vaccines and Immunization, Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado.
³ 3Department of Child and Adolescent Health, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
⁴ 4Global Health Program, Cornwall Regional Hospital, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Jamaica.
⁵ 5General Health Council of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
⁶ 6Center for Research, Diagnostic and Reference, Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kouri, Havana, Cuba.
⁷ 7Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁸ 8Department of Collective Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
⁹ 9Faculty of Medicine, Special Advisor to the Ministry of Health for COVID-19, University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile.
¹⁰ 10Respiratory and Measles Viruses Laboratory/SARS CoV 2 Reference, Laboratory, MoH, WHO, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹¹ 11Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia.
¹² 12American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Arlington, Virginia.

Jon Kim Andrus et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;103(2):593-596.

doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0571. Epub 2020 Jun 9.

¹ 1Department of Global Health, Milken Institute of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.
² 2Division of Vaccines and Immunization, Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado.
³ 3Department of Child and Adolescent Health, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
⁴ 4Global Health Program, Cornwall Regional Hospital, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Jamaica.
⁵ 5General Health Council of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
⁶ 6Center for Research, Diagnostic and Reference, Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kouri, Havana, Cuba.
⁷ 7Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁸ 8Department of Collective Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
⁹ 9Faculty of Medicine, Special Advisor to the Ministry of Health for COVID-19, University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile.
¹⁰ 10Respiratory and Measles Viruses Laboratory/SARS CoV 2 Reference, Laboratory, MoH, WHO, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹¹ 11Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia.
¹² 12American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Arlington, Virginia.

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