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