Abstract
The covid-19 pandemic revealed the innumerable shortages that have characterized the nation’s inequitable and fragmentary health care system for decades. The main goal of the following reflections is to outline the precarity of working conditions for health care personnel in Mexico, as well as the contradictory statements issued as the epidemic developed in the country, a combination of factors that magnified uncertainty about the new disease and how to deal with it.
health care workers; shortages; contradictions; patients; Mexico