Health
‘This is not a game’: Global coronavirus death toll hits 2 million – Sydney Morning Herald
It took eight months to hit 1 million dead from COVID-19. It took less than four months after that to reach the next million.
As a country, as a society, as citizens we havent understood, lamented Israel Gomez, a Mexico City paramedic who spent months shuttling COVID-19 patients around by ambulance, desperately looking for vacant hospital beds. We have not understood that this is not a game, that this really exists.
Mexico, a country of 130 million people, has received just 500,000 doses of vaccine and has put barely half of those into the arms of healthcare workers.
Thats in sharp contrast to the situation for its wealthier…
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