The Coronavirus Pandemic: Latin America’s Unfolding Crisis

Live Online Q&A with Marcia Castro, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH

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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.

MODERATOR

Elana Gordon, Reporter and Producer, The World

SPEAKER

Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health