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CASA GRANDE Dust from a nearby tractor blew thick across Paco Ollerton s face as he walked across a wide field sprinkled with leftover cotton from last fall s harvest. The tractor roared along his farm, tilling the soil to prepare for the next planting.
The cotton seeds Ollerton would plant were bright blue and shimmery, like tiny jewels in his hand. These seeds had been color-coded to signify that they were genetically modified.
Cotton farmers in Arizona started planting genetically modified cotton in 1996 in an effort to eradicate an invasive species of moth from Asia or Austrailia known as the pink bollworm. Pink bollworm caterpillars eat the seeds of cotton plants and damage cotton fibers, and in the 1990s and early 2000s, they were a big problem in Arizona.
The Mexican government designated public hospitals as the official COVID-19 treatment facilities since early in the pandemic, but private health care providers have also become important front-line workers, said Dr. Malaquías López-Cervantes, a former federal health official and a public health professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Mexican political leaders are disregarding recommendations from the World Health Organization and their own scientists, López-Cervantes said.
“What we have in Mexico is not a plan for vaccination, but just a collection of ideas that come out of political convenience. It’s pretty disorganized.”
Dr. Malaquías López-Cervantes, former federal health official and public health professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
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