On Wednesday, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, called on countries to expedite vaccination efforts and strengthen surveillance to monitor diseases like coronaviruses that spread from humans to animals. According to a PAHO release, Etienne also announced that PAHO had closed additional agreements with AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, and Sinovac to facilitate COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean. The WHO Emergency Use Listing authorized vaccines will be made available to countries this year, and in 2022, the release disclosed. And turning to the risk presented by animal to human – or zoonotic –
