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Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson.

It's day 92 since coronavirus was declared a global

pandemic. Our main story? In Mexico, COVID-19 is raging out of control. But the country's

health system has been failing its citizens for decades. Today, a dispatch from the country's capital

where patients fear the hospital almost as much as the disease. But first, here's what happened today.

Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin rejected the idea of rolling back the reopening of the economy,

even if there is another surge in coronavirus cases.

His remarks came in an interview today with CNBC.

We can't shut down the economy again.

I think we've learned that if you shut down the economy, you're going to create more damage

and not just economic damage, but there are other areas.

And we've talked about this of medical problems and everything else that get put on hold.

Mnuchin said we could avoid another shutdown because COVID-19 testing and contact tracing are improving.

He also said officials understand more about how to contain outbreaks.

But contact tracing efforts aren't turning out to be a perfect solution,

even in countries that are investing in them. In the first week of contact tracing in England,

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