By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat (SSA) on Monday, July 12, finally acknowledged that the county has entered its third wave of the covid-19 pandemic after infections surged 29 percent in just one week. According to the SSA, the majority of new cases of coronavirus infections are of younger Mexicans, most of whom have yet to
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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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By KELIN DILLON There have been over 31,754 deaths reported in states across Mexico attributed to the coronavirus, a figure 687 percent higher than the number reported by the nation’s Secretariat of Public Health (SSA) of 4,031 covid-19-related deaths. El Universal received the requested the documents and statistics from 16 of Mexico’s states to find this figure, leading to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The fourth stage of the Mexico City government’s vaccination program is set to begin on Wednesday, March 17, to inoculate the elderly populations of the Venustiano Carranza precinct, with the Chinese-produced SinoVac vaccine, city officials announced Monday, March 15. City officials said that they hope to inoculate 91,241 residents of the precinct, all of
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Action Governors Association (GOAN), which is made up of National Action Party (PAN) governors from the Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Tamaulipas, Quintana Roo, Durango, Yucatán, Querétaro and Sonora, announced its intention to contract 20 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which would arrive in periods from April to December of this
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Back to the Salt Mines Both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off activities Monday, Feb. 1, after the Christmas sabbatical with an array of very important issues under discussion for voting as soon as legislators feel the bills are ready. It came as no surprise that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Jan.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Political Lockup No sooner had Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) backed down Friday, Jan. 22, on permitting states government and private businesses to purchase anti-covid vaccines, then the 10 governors belonging to the opposition group Federalist Alliance (AF) fired back, complaining that AMLO’s change of mind had come “too late.” “The authorization to join this
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Friday, Jan. 22, that municipal and state governments, as well as private enterprises, will be allowed to acquire and distribute covid-19 vaccines. Speaking in his daily morning press conference at the National Palace, AMLO said that he had instructed the Mexican Public Health Secretariat (SSA) to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The director of Mexico’s universal covid-19 vaccination program, Miriam Veras Godoy, announced her resignation from the government post Sunday, Jan. 17. Veras Godoy, who helped design the vaccination program, which prioritizes first health workers treating covid patients, followed by citizens ranked by their age brackets, previously served as the director general of the nation’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It is the most common form of acute leukemia in adults, and one of the most aggressive and lethal cancers known to man. Originating in the bone marrow, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a condition in which the body produces too many myeloid white blood cells that flood the bloodstream and block the production and function of
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