By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS We all know the drill: Don’t wear white, avoid active sports and stay clear of swimming pools and the beach. Yep, that was what most girls her from the mothers and school counselors when they hit puberty and start having to deal with “that time of month.” But as George and Ira Gershwin astutely pointed out in
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By KELIN DILLON As part of Mexico’s ongoing vaccination program against covid-19, the government has now opened vaccine registration for all inhabitants between the ages of 30 and 39, announced Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell on Tuesday, June 22. “Registration is simple, with your unique population registration card and registered address,” said López-Gatell, encouraging all eligible residents to sign up
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By KELIN DILLON Six people in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora that were completely vaccinated against coronavirus have reportedly died from covid-19, with a further 24 people who received a single dose of the vaccine likewise passing away in the area. Despite the startling news, Sonora’s Secretary of Health Enrique Clausen urged his state’s inhabitants not to let the news
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AMLO Opens the Door to Economic Development
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It used to be that if you wanted to tighten your thighs or get rid of those not-so-loving love handles or slim your derriere, you had to go under the knife. Sure, liposuction was never quite as traumatic as a full-on body or facelift, but it still constituted surgery, and included all the pain and recovery time
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XINHUA Mexico is registering a rebound in covid-19 infections in six of its 32 states after 20 weeks of a national downward trend, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo López-Gatell said on Tuesday, June 15. Yucatán and Quintana Roo have a “very substantial” increase in covid cases, followed by Baja California, Campeche, Sinaloa and Veracruz, according to the official.
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Electoral Cleanup
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Looking for Takers
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By KELIN DILLON According to a study conducted by the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), nine out of 10 Mexicans who died from covid-19 were people who held essential jobs that did not allow them to work from home during the pandemic. A total of 94 percent of the country’s more than 220,000 coronavirus-related
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By KELIN DILLON Figures from Mexico’s Secretariat of Health (SSA) revealed that between 45 and 50 percent of the Mexican population have already contracted covid-19, according to a new study conducted between the National Institute of Public Health and the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). “We estimate that 47 percent of the people who live
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