'Don't you get it?': late doctor's family urge Mexicans to heed Covid-19 risk
Analy Nuño in Guadalajara
Wed 1 Jul 2020 05.15 EDT
Last modified on Wed 1 Jul 2020 12.15 EDT
The images of Iván Cruz’s lungs resemble a dust cloud in outer space: light patches enveloped by the gloom.
Before he died in hospital, the young Mexican doctor had intended to publish them online to convince the unbelievers: coronavirus exists, and this is what it does to you.
“It makes you feel impotent and angry not to be able to grab people and tell them: ‘Don’t you get it?’” said Agileo Cruz, the father of the 28-year-old Mexican doctor, who died from Covid-19-related complications last month.
Mexico is now one of the countries worst-hit by Covid-19, with more than 220,000 reported infections and 27,000 dead, the seventh-highest death toll on Earth.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/01/mexico-coronavirus-doctor-lungs-scepticism
