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Pushing the Elephant up the Stairs

By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER There is no doubt that the Mexican government’s hasty declaration that the covid-19 pandemic is over was motivated by politics and economic interests, not medical science. The administration of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) didn’t even wait until the daily coronavirus death toll had dropped before issuing a jump-the-gun covid all-clear “green” infection risk

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Mexico’s Return to In-Person Classes Is Inevitable, but Challenging

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Despite the growing number of new cases of covid-19 in Mexico during the third wave of the pandemic, the return to in-person classes is still uncertain. As of Friday, July 30, at least seven Mexican states had reported critical hospital occupancy levels, above 70 percent, while, in most other states, the number of confirmed

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