Mexico City buried its rivers to prevent disease and unwittingly created a dry, polluted city where COVID-19 now thrives
- Written by Elena Delavega, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Memphis
Situated on a plateau and surrounded by mountains, Mexico City is a bowl that traps smog and dust.AP Photo/Marco UgarteMexico City is a dust bowl, a polluted megalopolis where breathing is hard and newly washed clothes hung out to dry turn stiff by evening. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began clobbering this capital city, residents regularly...