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THREAD: Because Mexico takes a year (!) to publish mortality data, @jmontesWSJ pored over death certificates in Mexico City to see if Mexico was undercounting Covid deaths. The short answer: yes. wsj.com/articles/death… via @WSJ
He obtained 105 death certificates filed over two days. Only four had Covid as the official cause of death. 52 more had "suspected Covid" or similar written next to official cause acute respiratory infection. But those aren't counted as official deaths by the gov't.
It's a small sample size, yes, but it suggests that for every official case of Covid death in Mexico, there could be many, many more unaccounted for. Mexico does very little testing, and is missing testing even of some who die. Hard to gauge real extent of pandemic.
Together with this NYT story today, it paints a pretty damning picture of how Mexico's government is undercounting the dead. nytimes.com/2020/05/08/wor…
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