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riversedge

(70,214 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:26 PM Feb 2021

Carlos Slim, Latin America's richest man, hospitalized with COVID-19

Mexico's richest and now thier President. I am cynical but no doubt they got the world's best medical treatments.





Carlos Slim, Latin America’s richest man, hospitalized with COVID-19




https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/mexican-billionaire-carlos-slim-hospitalized-with-covid-19/
By Lee Brown

January 28, 2021 | 1:14pm | Updated
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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has been hospitalized with COVID-19.


Latin America’s richest man, Carlos Slim, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, his family has revealed.

The Mexican telecoms magnate — who turned 81 on Thursday......................

As of Thursday, Mexico had registered more than 1.8 million COVID-19 cases, with more than 153,000 deaths — the world’s fourth-highest fatality toll after the United States, Brazil and India, Johns Hopkins University data shows.



Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Sunday that he was among many who had tested positive for the coronavirus........
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Carlos Slim, Latin America's richest man, hospitalized with COVID-19 (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2021 OP
He'll probably pull out of it. lpbk2713 Feb 2021 #1
Post's numbers, not yours ok_cpu Feb 2021 #2
That seems quite likely when you consider the lack of wealth in Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #4
The new "Who done it" except for no investigation. So, want to get rid of your pesky Miigwech Feb 2021 #3
Surprising he didn't get the vaccine before now ? OnDoutside Feb 2021 #5

ok_cpu

(2,051 posts)
2. Post's numbers, not yours
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:32 PM
Feb 2021

but the fatality / case numbers are staggering. Is Mexico really at 8-9% mortality?

Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)
4. That seems quite likely when you consider the lack of wealth in
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 02:05 PM
Feb 2021

the country overall. Lack of access to nutrition, high rates of diabetes, lack of access to healthcare, high rates of obesity . . . . plus the healthcare system in Mexico is even more fractured than our own - presumably the public healthcare system as well.


 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
3. The new "Who done it" except for no investigation. So, want to get rid of your pesky
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:57 PM
Feb 2021

elder that controls all of the family fortune ???? Just give them the COVID and BOOM ... it is all over ... no questions asked. Perfect crime .... always an angle for these folks, LOL The best thing of all is that all these super rich folks hate one another and can't wait for their parents and grand parents to croak so they can inherent the money ... worms in love, just picture it

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