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Ana Sofía is radiologist at a state-run hospital in the Mexican city of Monterrey, not far from the Texas border. Her work often brings her into close contact with patients, but says she was denied a coronavirus vaccination as her superiors did not consider her to be a frontline worker. In despair, she attended a rural vaccination event for the elderly and asked for a leftover dose of the Sinovac jab – but she was again rebuffed, this time by. ....
Amloâs response to the pandemic has confounded public health experts. According to the University of Washington, Mexicoâs death toll is more than 600,000 â nearly triple the official figure. Yet the country has spent less than 1% of GDP on its response. Elements of the vaccination campaign have also caused controversy. The government has used the military to distribute vaccines, excluding the private sector, which has played a central role in other countries. Chaotic scenes have broken out as crowds of thousands are convened to temporary vaccination centres rather than pharmacies and clinics. The government was also criticised for focusing early vaccination efforts on rural areas with low transmission rates, rather than crowded urban areas where infections have been rampant. ....
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 ....
Across the globe, there is consensus: health-care workers get vaccinated first. Nowhere other than Mexico have so many health workers died during the pandemic. And now many say they are being passed over for inoculation and are protesting by blocking main roads and the president’s national palace. “They need to wait,” said President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during his morning press conference on Friday. “We’ll all get the shot.” Lopez Obrador and the virus czar Hugo Lopez-Gatell have repeatedly said that all workers that are strictly in the frontlines of Covid have received their vaccines, but they focused on staff of public hospitals assigned to cover coronavirus cases. ....