Coronavirus Conversations: A deepening crisis in Latin America
A cemetery worker paints numbers on crosses to be used as grave markers, at the Inahuma cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, amid the coronavirus pandemic, April 28, 2021.
Latin America and the Caribbean now register a million new COVID-19 infections about every six days. With the vaccine rollout lagging and lives and livelihoods hanging in the balance, what is next for the region? As part of The World’s series of conversations on the pandemic with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and as a special feature in our podcast feed, reporter Elana Gordon moderated a discussion with demographer Marcia Castro.
Find more of The World’s Coronavirus Conversations series: https://www.theworld.org/coronavirus-conversations
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