Rachel Laudan

Percentage rise in price in Mexican supermarkets from29 April to 5 May Chlorox   234 Mayo           27.7 Eggs             12.5 Fideos         21.6 Beans           54 Guavas        40   (on account of their high vitamin C content) Average number of carts in line for each cashier last weekend     15 Fall in sales of pork    70-90% Fall in price of live [...]

I don’t know how I missed this link yesterday in the NY Times.  It’s by Julio Frenk, Mexico’s Minister of Health from 2000-2006 and now Dean of the School of Public Health at Harvard.

Here we go again.  The situation seems to have been dragging on for weeks, so it’s hard to remember that a week ago swine flu had barely been heard of.  My friend David Lida’s column in the New York Times suggests something of the psychological ups and downs people living in Mexico have been going [...]