The award-winning screenwriter for the landmark projects, William Blinn, died of natural causes.
Erica Nitschke
Columnist
The Latest: Mexico health officials acknowledge higher death toll
MEXICO CITY — Mexican health authorities acknowledge the country’s true death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is far higher than previously thought, saying there were 193,170 “excess” deaths in the year up to Sept. 26. Of those, 139,153 are now judged to be attributable to COVID-19. Mexico’s official, test-confirmed death toll is only about 89,000, […]
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