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Mexico to Vaccinate At-Risk Children

By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 14, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell announced that one million minors at-risk of contracting covid-19 will receive vaccinations against the virus, a choice affirming the multiple court rulings that have given children in Mexico the right to be inoculated. López-Gatell said the shots against covid would be given to children

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Hospitals Left without Gel, Soap as Covid Surges in Mexico

By KELIN DILLON While Mexico’s hospitalizations caused by covid-19 have grown by a massive 562 percent in the past two months alone, the country’s hospitals have been suffering from a huge lack in supply of gel, soap and other necessary items used in the sanitation. According to patients and health workers, there is also a distinct lack of services, medicinal

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Dante Carbajal Ocampo: Portrait of an Upbeat Oncologist

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS At age 48, Dante Carbajal Ocampo is not what you might expect in an oncological gynecologist. Unlike the classic stereotype of a jaded, moody, disinterested, keep-your-emotional-distance oncologist (a recent Medscape report said that at least 78 percent of oncologists experience serious professional burnout and depression within their first five years of practice, and 10 percent said that

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