Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Nurses in Mexico asked not to wear masks because it would cause panic

Nurses at a public hospital hit by Mexico’s worst coronavirus outbreak were told by their managers not to wear protective masks at the start of the epidemic to avoid sowing panic among patients, nurses and other medical workers said.

Two doctors and a hospital administrator have died and at least 51 staff members have been infected since the new coronavirus was detected at the IMSS General Hospital in Monclova in the northern state of Coahuila in late March, the state health department said.

The hospital became Mexico’s first hot spot for the COVID . . .

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