{"id":2204,"date":"2020-12-11T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2020-12-11T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:14:36","slug":"mexicos-coronavirus-czar-faces-criticism-as-covid-19-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/mexicos-coronavirus-czar-faces-criticism-as-covid-19-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s coronavirus czar faces criticism as COVID-19 surges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><em>Science\u2019s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">RODRIGO P\u00c9REZ ORTEGA \/ SCIENCE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s hardly a Mexican who doesn\u2019t know Hugo L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez by now. Mexico\u2019s 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\u2019s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as COVID-19 deaths in Mexico continue to soar\u2014surpassed only by the United States, Brazil, and India\u2014many have questioned L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez\u2019s leadership. Critics accuse him of undercounting the true numbers and mishandling the nation\u2019s response. In early August, the governors of nine Mexican states demanded his resignation. His defenders, though, say he\u2019s making sound decisions based on science and doing the best he can with the resources at his disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/11\/how-communist-physics-teacher-flattened-covid-19-curve-southern-india\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/grid_thumb_-_290x163__16_9_\/public\/CovidProfile_Shailaja_RGB.jpg?itok=wKJuG7WC\" alt=\"Illustration of K. K. Shailaja\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez says the country\u2019s chronically&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/28\/world\/americas\/virus-mexico-doctors.html\">underfunded public health system<\/a>&nbsp;has complicated efforts to track the disease and coordinate the response. But he insists the government\u2019s approach\u2014which includes forgoing widespread testing in favor of a more targeted approach\u2014has been based on science. Many critics, he says, are politically motivated. He\u2019s been sleeping 3 to 4 hours a night since the pandemic started, he says, and he regrets the disruption to his family life. \u201cThe mission calls me and until I deliver results\u2014I hope favorable\u2014I cannot stop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fame might be new to L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez, but pandemics are not. Just 2 years after finishing his Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2006 at Johns Hopkins University, he became head of epidemiology at the Mexican health ministry. One year later, in 2009, the swine flu pandemic struck Mexico, and L\u00f3pez- Gatell Ram\u00edrez helped lead the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/326\/5960\/1607\">H1N1 virus<\/a>, which caused panic around the world, likely originated on a pig farm in Mexico. Mexico City was shut down for 2 weeks, and the country scrambled to curb the virus\u2019 spread. L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez says the experience taught him many lessons, including the dangers of poor coordination among government institutions and \u201cpolitical opportunism\u201d by officials trying to use the crisis to their advantage. This time, he says, President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador has given his team decision-making power and protected them from political meddling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with the new pandemic, L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez placed his trust in the country\u2019s \u201csentinel\u201d system, originally designed for flu outbreaks. In contrast to the massive testing and contact tracing efforts in many other countries, the system relies on a small, strategic, nationwide sample of tests, which are then used to predict the spread of a disease. As a result, even though Mexico\u2019s flagship diagnostics laboratory\u2014the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (InDRE)\u2014developed the world\u2019s first polymerase chain reaction protocol to detect SARS-CoV-2, the country ranks among the world\u2019s lowest in per-capita testing. Mexico has performed about 17 tests per thousand people in total, whereas the United States has done more than 30 times that many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reliance on the sentinel model may have prevented L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez and his team from making accurate predictions. They forecast the pandemic would peak around 8 May, with 4500 daily cases, aided by a national voluntary lockdown in effect from late March until June. (The lockdown was voluntary because many Mexicans live in poverty and rely on daily work to survive.) Instead, daily cases kept climbing, to a peak of 9556 on 3 August. Since then, the number has fluctuated between 3000 and 12,000, and the pandemic is worsening. The official death count now exceeds 110,000, nearly twice the model\u2019s original worst case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers, politicians, and national and international media have suggested the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/08\/world\/americas\/mexico-coronavirus-count.html\">true toll is even greater<\/a>. As in almost every country, not every COVID-19 death is registered. But the rift between statistics and reality may be particularly wide in Mexico. In late November, officials released a report of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.gob.mx\/exceso-de-mortalidad-en-mexico\/\">excess deaths<\/a>&nbsp;from all causes, suggesting nearly 156,000 of them could be attributed to COVID-19 in people who were never tested. The rate of positive tests recently hit 47%, evidence of a rampaging epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some observers think scarce funding was the real reason for the limited testing. Alejandro Mac\u00edas, an infectious disease physician and Mexico\u2019s former H1N1 czar, doubts L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez truly believed the approach would be successful. \u201cHe got trapped in a system in which the InDRE was not given sufficient resources or all the money that was going to be needed for testing,\u201d Mac\u00edas says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can buy thousands of tests, but if you don\u2019t have the personnel [to perform them], you can\u2019t do much,\u201d adds Celia Mercedes Alpuche Aranda, an infectious disease researcher at the National Institute of Public Health and former director of InDRE. L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez\u2019s strategy, she says, is adapted to the country\u2019s reality: too many people to test and not enough infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Testing isn\u2019t the only area where L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez has drawn criticism. As Europe and the United States were dealing with their first waves of infections, he advised against closing Mexico\u2019s borders. Doing so would harm the economy, he said, but would not prevent the pandemic from arriving\u2014a view shared by the World Health Organization and others at the time. Many epidemiologists now concede that closing borders can help stem viral spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His stance on face masks is perhaps his most controversial: Despite growing pressure from the public, politicians, and scientists citing evidence that masks can reduce viral transmission, L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez still hasn\u2019t mandated their use nationwide. Masks would give a \u201cfalse sense of security\u201d and lead people to relax other measures such as hand washing and keeping a healthy distance, he said early in the pandemic. Even as evidence of the benefits of wearing masks became clear, he still has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsdaily.com\/news\/coronavirus\/no-to-enforcing-use-of-coronavirus-face-masks\/\">not fully come around<\/a>, critics say. Some Mexican states, however, have imposed their own mask mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mac\u00edas suspects L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez\u2019s statements on masks have been influenced by the views of his boss, L\u00f3pez Obrador, who refuses to wear a face mask in public and constantly downplays the pandemic. \u201cHe had to defend the indefensible,\u201d Mac\u00edas says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the adversities, the Mexican health system has scored some victories under L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez. Starting with a deficit of more than 310,000 health care workers, he says, the system hired more than 47,000 people in a matter of months and tripled the number of intensive care beds with ventilators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s the right person to be in that position,\u201d says infectious disease physician Gustavo Reyes Ter\u00e1n, who leads the country\u2019s National Institutes of Health and its affiliated hospital network. The institutes and hospitals Reyes Ter\u00e1n coordinates avoided becoming overwhelmed, he says, thanks to L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez. \u201cThat, to me, has been one of the most important successes here,\u201d he says. (Media have reported, however, that many Mexicans died at home without setting foot in a hospital.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez has also taken action against one cause of the virus\u2019 toll in Mexico: high rates of hypertension, obesity, and diabetes, which can make severe disease more likely. In response, L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez has renewed his long-standing campaign against&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2020\/08\/23\/coca-cola-bottled-poison-mexico-finds-covid-19-villain-soda\/5607741002\/\">junk food and sugary drinks<\/a>, calling them \u201cbottled poison.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is a person with good intentions to do things well, to be based on science,\u201d Alpuche Aranda says. \u201cHe\u2019s doing the best he can,\u201d Mac\u00edas adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How history judges L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez, however, may ultimately depend on the pandemic\u2019s toll on his nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuente: https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/12\/mexico-s-coronavirus-czar-faces-criticism-covid-19-surges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>TRADUCCI\u00d3N<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">El zar del coronavirus de M\u00e9xico enfrenta cr\u00edticas por el aumento de COVID-19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dif\u00edcilmente hay un mexicano que no conozca a Hugo L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez a estas alturas.&nbsp;El subsecretario de Prevenci\u00f3n y Promoci\u00f3n de la Salud de M\u00e9xico se ha sentado frente a los periodistas a las 7 pm en punto casi todas las noches desde fines de febrero para actualizarlos, y al pa\u00eds, sobre el peaje de la pandemia del coronavirus.&nbsp;Su comportamiento firme, su discurso cuidadoso y su personalidad cort\u00e9s han hecho que sus conferencias de prensa televisadas sobre el coronavirus sean a\u00fan m\u00e1s populares que las del presidente del pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pero a medida que contin\u00faan aumentando las muertes por COVID-19 en M\u00e9xico \u2014s\u00f3lo superadas por Estados Unidos, Brasil e India\u2014 muchos han cuestionado el liderazgo de L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez.&nbsp;Los cr\u00edticos lo acusan de subestimar las cifras reales y de manejar mal la respuesta de la naci\u00f3n.&nbsp;A principios de agosto, los gobernadores de nueve estados mexicanos exigieron su renuncia.&nbsp;Sin embargo, sus defensores dicen que est\u00e1 tomando decisiones acertadas basadas en la ciencia y haciendo lo mejor que puede con los recursos a su disposici\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/11\/how-communist-physics-teacher-flattened-covid-19-curve-southern-india\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/grid_thumb_-_290x163__16_9_\/public\/CovidProfile_Shailaja_RGB.jpg?itok=wKJuG7WC\" alt=\"Ilustraci\u00f3n de KK Shailaja\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez dice que el&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/28\/world\/americas\/virus-mexico-doctors.html\">sistema de salud p\u00fablica que<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;padece una&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/28\/world\/americas\/virus-mexico-doctors.html\">insuficiencia<\/a>&nbsp;cr\u00f3nica de&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/28\/world\/americas\/virus-mexico-doctors.html\">fondos<\/a>&nbsp;ha complicado los esfuerzos para rastrear la enfermedad y coordinar la respuesta.&nbsp;Pero insiste en que el enfoque del gobierno, que incluye renunciar a las pruebas generalizadas a favor de un enfoque m\u00e1s espec\u00edfico, se ha basado en la ciencia.&nbsp;Muchos cr\u00edticos, dice, tienen motivaciones pol\u00edticas.&nbsp;Ha estado durmiendo de 3 a 4 horas por noche desde que comenz\u00f3 la pandemia, dice, y lamenta la interrupci\u00f3n de su vida familiar.&nbsp;\u201cLa misi\u00f3n me llama y hasta que no d\u00e9 resultados, espero que sean favorables, no puedo parar\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La fama puede ser nueva para L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez, pero las pandemias no lo son.&nbsp;Solo 2 a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de terminar su doctorado.&nbsp;en epidemiolog\u00eda en 2006 en la Universidad Johns Hopkins, se convirti\u00f3 en jefe de epidemiolog\u00eda en el Ministerio de Salud de M\u00e9xico.&nbsp;Un a\u00f1o despu\u00e9s, en 2009, la pandemia de gripe porcina azot\u00f3 a M\u00e9xico y L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez ayud\u00f3 a liderar la respuesta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/326\/5960\/1607\">virus H1N1<\/a>&nbsp;, que caus\u00f3 p\u00e1nico en todo el mundo, probablemente se origin\u00f3 en una granja de cerdos en M\u00e9xico.&nbsp;La Ciudad de M\u00e9xico estuvo cerrada por 2 semanas y el pa\u00eds luch\u00f3 para frenar la propagaci\u00f3n del virus.&nbsp;L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez dice que la experiencia le ense\u00f1\u00f3 muchas lecciones, incluidos los peligros de una mala coordinaci\u00f3n entre las instituciones gubernamentales y el \u201coportunismo pol\u00edtico\u201d de los funcionarios que intentan aprovechar la crisis.&nbsp;Esta vez, dice, el presidente Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador le ha dado a su equipo poder de decisi\u00f3n y lo ha protegido de la intromisi\u00f3n pol\u00edtica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ante la nueva pandemia, L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez deposit\u00f3 su confianza en el sistema \u201ccentinela\u201d del pa\u00eds, originalmente dise\u00f1ado para los brotes de gripe.&nbsp;En contraste con las pruebas masivas y los esfuerzos de rastreo de contactos en muchos otros pa\u00edses, el sistema se basa en una peque\u00f1a muestra estrat\u00e9gica de pruebas a nivel nacional, que luego se utilizan para predecir la propagaci\u00f3n de una enfermedad.&nbsp;Como resultado, a pesar de que el laboratorio de diagn\u00f3stico insignia de M\u00e9xico, el Instituto de Diagn\u00f3stico y Referencia Epidemiol\u00f3gicos (InDRE), desarroll\u00f3 el primer protocolo de reacci\u00f3n en cadena de la polimerasa del mundo para detectar el SARS-CoV-2, el pa\u00eds se encuentra entre los m\u00e1s bajos del mundo en pruebas per c\u00e1pita. .&nbsp;M\u00e9xico ha realizado alrededor de 17 pruebas por cada mil personas en total, mientras que Estados Unidos ha realizado m\u00e1s de 30 veces esa cantidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La confianza en el modelo centinela puede haber impedido que L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez y su equipo hicieran predicciones precisas.&nbsp;Pronosticaron que la pandemia alcanzar\u00eda su punto m\u00e1ximo alrededor del 8 de mayo, con 4500 casos diarios, con la ayuda de un cierre voluntario nacional en vigor desde finales de marzo hasta junio.&nbsp;(El cierre fue voluntario porque muchos mexicanos viven en la pobreza y dependen del trabajo diario para sobrevivir). En cambio, los casos diarios siguieron aumentando, hasta un m\u00e1ximo de 9556 el 3 de agosto.&nbsp;Desde entonces, el n\u00famero ha fluctuado entre 3000 y 12,000, y la pandemia est\u00e1 empeorando.&nbsp;El recuento oficial de muertos supera ahora los 110.000, casi el doble del peor de los casos originales del modelo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigadores, pol\u00edticos y medios de comunicaci\u00f3n nacionales e internacionales han sugerido que el&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/08\/world\/americas\/mexico-coronavirus-count.html\">costo real es a\u00fan mayor<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp;Como en casi todos los pa\u00edses, no se registran todas las muertes por COVID-19.&nbsp;Pero la brecha entre las estad\u00edsticas y la realidad puede ser particularmente amplia en M\u00e9xico.&nbsp;A fines de noviembre, los funcionarios publicaron un informe sobre el&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.gob.mx\/exceso-de-mortalidad-en-mexico\/\">exceso de muertes<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;por todas las causas, lo que sugiere que casi 156,000 de ellas podr\u00edan atribuirse al COVID-19 en personas que nunca se hicieron la prueba.&nbsp;La tasa de pruebas positivas alcanz\u00f3 recientemente el 47%, evidencia de una epidemia devastadora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Algunos observadores piensan que la escasez de fondos fue la verdadera raz\u00f3n de las pruebas limitadas.&nbsp;Alejandro Mac\u00edas, m\u00e9dico de enfermedades infecciosas y ex zar de M\u00e9xico contra la gripe H1N1, duda que L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez realmente creyera que el enfoque ser\u00eda exitoso.&nbsp;\u201cQued\u00f3 atrapado en un sistema en el que el InDRE no ten\u00eda suficientes recursos ni todo el dinero que se iba a necesitar para las pruebas\u201d, dice Mac\u00edas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPuedes comprar miles de pruebas, pero si no tienes el personal [para realizarlas], no puedes hacer mucho\u201d, agrega Celia Mercedes Alpuche Aranda, investigadora de enfermedades infecciosas del Instituto Nacional de Salud P\u00fablica y ex director de InDRE.&nbsp;La estrategia de L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez, dice, se adapta a la realidad del pa\u00eds: demasiada gente para probar y poca infraestructura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Las pruebas no son la \u00fanica \u00e1rea en la que L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez ha recibido cr\u00edticas.&nbsp;Mientras Europa y Estados Unidos estaban lidiando con sus primeras oleadas de infecciones, desaconsej\u00f3 el cierre de las fronteras de M\u00e9xico.&nbsp;Hacerlo da\u00f1ar\u00eda la econom\u00eda, dijo, pero no evitar\u00eda la llegada de la pandemia, una opini\u00f3n compartida por la Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial de la Salud y otros en ese momento.&nbsp;Muchos epidemi\u00f3logos reconocen ahora que el cierre de fronteras puede ayudar a detener la propagaci\u00f3n viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Su postura sobre las mascarillas es quiz\u00e1s la m\u00e1s controvertida: a pesar de la creciente presi\u00f3n del p\u00fablico, pol\u00edticos y cient\u00edficos que citan evidencia de que las mascarillas pueden reducir la transmisi\u00f3n viral, L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez a\u00fan no ha ordenado su uso en todo el pa\u00eds.&nbsp;Las m\u00e1scaras dar\u00edan una \u00abfalsa sensaci\u00f3n de seguridad\u00bb y llevar\u00edan a la gente a relajarse con otras medidas, como lavarse las manos y mantener una distancia saludable, dijo al principio de la pandemia.&nbsp;Incluso cuando la evidencia de los beneficios de usar m\u00e1scaras se hizo evidente, todav\u00eda&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsdaily.com\/news\/coronavirus\/no-to-enforcing-use-of-coronavirus-face-masks\/\">no se ha recuperado por completo<\/a>&nbsp;, dicen los cr\u00edticos.&nbsp;Sin embargo, algunos estados mexicanos han impuesto sus propios mandatos de m\u00e1scaras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mac\u00edas sospecha que las declaraciones de L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez sobre las m\u00e1scaras han sido influenciadas por las opiniones de su jefe, L\u00f3pez Obrador, quien se niega a usar una mascarilla en p\u00fablico y constantemente minimiza la pandemia.&nbsp;\u201cTen\u00eda que defender lo indefendible\u201d, dice Mac\u00edas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pesar de las adversidades, el sistema de salud mexicano ha logrado algunas victorias con L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez.&nbsp;A partir de un d\u00e9ficit de m\u00e1s de 310.000 trabajadores de la salud, dice, el sistema contrat\u00f3 a m\u00e1s de 47.000 personas en cuesti\u00f3n de meses y triplic\u00f3 el n\u00famero de camas de cuidados intensivos con ventiladores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCreo que es la persona adecuada para ocupar ese cargo\u201d, dice el m\u00e9dico de enfermedades infecciosas Gustavo Reyes Ter\u00e1n, quien dirige los Institutos Nacionales de Salud del pa\u00eds y su red de hospitales afiliados.&nbsp;Los institutos y hospitales que coordina Reyes Ter\u00e1n evitaron abrumarse, dice, gracias a L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez.&nbsp;\u201cEse, para m\u00ed, ha sido uno de los \u00e9xitos m\u00e1s importantes aqu\u00ed\u201d, dice.&nbsp;(Sin embargo, los medios informaron que muchos mexicanos murieron en sus hogares sin poner un pie en un hospital).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez tambi\u00e9n ha tomado medidas contra una de las causas del n\u00famero de v\u00edctimas del virus en M\u00e9xico: las altas tasas de hipertensi\u00f3n, obesidad y diabetes, que pueden aumentar las probabilidades de una enfermedad grave.&nbsp;En respuesta, L\u00f3pez-Gatell Ram\u00edrez ha renovado su campa\u00f1a de larga data contra&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2020\/08\/23\/coca-cola-bottled-poison-mexico-finds-covid-19-villain-soda\/5607741002\/\">la comida chatarra y las bebidas azucaradas<\/a>&nbsp;, llam\u00e1ndolas \u00abveneno embotellado\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEs una persona con buenas intenciones de hacer las cosas bien, de basarse en la ciencia\u201d, dice Alpuche Aranda.&nbsp;\u201cEst\u00e1 haciendo lo mejor que puede\u201d, agrega 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