A Mexican activist group says its analysis of death certificates shows an enormous undercount of coronavirus-related fatalities by the government.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is one of the world’s most powerful leftists. So why is he drawing comparisons to Margaret Thatcher?
Experts say the numbers gap arises in large part from Mexico’s extremely low testing rate — about 1,442 tests per 1 million people, among the lowest of heavily populated nations in the Western Hemisphere, outside Africa, according to the global statistics website. Chile and Peru have testing rates about 15 times greater than Mexico, and the U.S. testing rate is almost 30 times greater.
“The undercount of cases and deaths because of COVID-19 is an international problem,” Dr. Alejandro Macías, who headed Mexico’s response to the swine flu epidemic a decade ago, wrote on Twitter following release of the new report. “In Mexico it may be particularly big because we do so few tests, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is trying to hide cases. Let’s say it’s more of a measuring error.
In his televised daily updates, however, López-Gatell has lately found himself having to explain multicolored charts indicating an ever-upwards trajectory of contagion and death. On Wednesday, Mexico officially reported a record one-day number of COVID-19 fatalities, 424, and a nationwide total topping 6,000 — a figure that López-Gatell had earlier projected would be the likely final death tally.
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