A fact from Joel Molina Ramírez appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 November 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that four days after participating in a 12-hour-long legislative session, Joel Molina Ramírez became the first Mexican senator to die of COVID-19?
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I find the claim that it would have been proven that he was infected in the Senate chamber to be difficult to ascertain. Presumably he wasn't sequestered inside the Senate building for a continuous period of several weeks. Notably neither of the 2 refs back up that claim either. --Soman (talk) 11:35, 25 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
That's probably a good call, Soman, even if they are claiming he caught it in the Senate (which has an active outbreak with some 160 confirmed cases among senators and staff). I have learned since that he was in a long session just days before his death, which is noteworthy and makes for a much better hook: Raymie (t • c) 17:11, 25 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
ALT1: ... that four days after participating in a 12-hour-long legislative session, Joel Molina Ramírez became the first Mexican senator to die of COVID-19? Source
I find the claim that it would have been proven that he was infected in the Senate chamber to be difficult to ascertain. Presumably he wasn't sequestered inside the Senate building for a continuous period of several weeks. Notably neither of the 2 refs back up that claim either. --Soman (talk) 11:35, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
ALT1 approved. (t · c) buidhe 19:07, 27 October 2020 (UTC)