Mexico's controversial coronavirus czar
Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation There's hardly a Mexican who doesn't know Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez by now. Mexico's undersecretary of prevention and health promotion has sat across from reporters at 7 p.m. sharp almost every single night since late February to update them, and the country, on the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. His firm demeanor, careful speech, and courteous personality have made his televised coronavirus press briefings even more popular than those of the country's president. But as COVID-19 deaths in M...
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