Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Mexico is entering its darkest phase yet.
Hospitals in many states are near capacity, ventilators and oxygen tanks are in scarce supply and more people are dying than ever before.
At a medical center erected on a Mexico City military base, the morgue has run out of space.
“In the end you’re just stacking people in piles,” said Dr. Giorgio Alberto Franyuti Kelly, chief of biosecurity for the military, who treats patients at the makeshift hospital.
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Large-scale vaccination is widely seen as the clearest way out. Yet this last week the government announced that its inoculation program one of the most ambitious in Latin America had essentially come to a standstill.
Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Mexico is entering its darkest phase yet.
More people are infected than at any point before, including the nation’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Hospitals in many states are near capacity, ventilators and oxygen tanks are in scarce supply and every day seems to bring a new record death toll.
At a temporary medical center assembled on a Mexico City military base, the morgue has run out of space.
“In the end you’re just stacking people in piles,” said Dr. Giorgio Alberto Franyuti Kelly, chief of biosecurity for the military, who treats patients at the makeshift hospital.