President #AMLO & @SSalud_mx spokesman @HLGatell laud their own achievements & brag that the majority of ICU beds are available to treat patients.
They don't mention the fact that 8 out 10 Covid-19 patients in 🇲🇽 have died without being intubated.
Patients go to the 🏥 to die
They don't mention the fact that 8 out 10 Covid-19 patients in 🇲🇽 have died without being intubated.
Patients go to the 🏥 to die
I explain, "In Mexico, Covid-19 patients are dying because public hospitals are failing to save them. Mexico’s president has actively encouraged people with symptoms to fight the virus at home. The root of the problem in Mexico is leadership failure." (#AMLO)
"Like the 🇺🇸 & 🇧🇷, 🇲🇽 is led by an incompetent iconoclast. Over the last 6months, President #AMLO has devoted far more energy to lambasting the media & his political 'adversaries' than warning the public about the more immediate threat posed by the spread of coronavirus."
"Arrogant & anti-intellectual, #AMLO has bungled his way through the health crisis. While he claims to be delegating pandemic messaging & policy to the experts & scientists at his Health Ministry, he refuses to wear a mask in public & jokes that masks aren’t important."
"Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, #AMLO insists that his government is winning the fight against Covid-19. He lauds 🇲🇽’s public hospitals for their work and re-assures the public that the death toll in 🇲🇽 is largely caused by the prevalence of chronic diseases."
#AMLO hasn’t commented on the fact the mortality rate of Covid-19 patients in IMSS hospitals is 3X higher than in private hospitals. Only 15% of the Covid-19 patients treated in Mexico’s private hospitals die, while ~1/2 of Covid patients @ IMSS facilities do not survive."
While the overwhelming majority of Covid patients in Mexico are dying before receiving ventilator treatment, #AMLO brags 2/3 of all ventilators are still available.
In his home state of Tabasco only 1 in every 10 Covid-19 patients was connected to a ventilator before dying!
In his home state of Tabasco only 1 in every 10 Covid-19 patients was connected to a ventilator before dying!
The number of covid-19 patients dying in Mexico before receiving ventilator treatment is shocking:
Mexico City: 6,218 Covid-19 patients are categorized as dying without receiving ventilator treatment.
State of Mexico: 7,825
Puebla: 2,777
Mexico City: 6,218 Covid-19 patients are categorized as dying without receiving ventilator treatment.
State of Mexico: 7,825
Puebla: 2,777
In my article, I explain "Mexico’s President #AMLO appears to be hoping that his country’s voters will accept his attempt to connect Mexico’s tragic Covid-19 mortality rate to the pre-existing phenomenon of widespread chronic disease."
But...
But...
a team of doctors and public health experts studying the outcomes of Covid-19 patients in U.S. intensive care units found that when other factors are held constant, diabetes & obesity are not associated with increased risk of death from Covid-19 once patients are intubated
For Covid-19 patients admitted to ICUs in the 🇺🇸, 60% survived, but on average survivors spend 9 days in the ICU & 16 days in the 🏥.
In 🇲🇽, over 1/2 of all Covid-19 patients spent under 1 week in the 🏥before dying & 1/3+ were hospitalized for 3 days or fewer before they died.
In 🇲🇽, over 1/2 of all Covid-19 patients spent under 1 week in the 🏥before dying & 1/3+ were hospitalized for 3 days or fewer before they died.
In the U.S. nearly 9 out 10 critical care patients are intubated within two weeks of arriving at an intensive care unit, in Mexico the reverse is true: most patients die before ever being connected to a ventilator.
In Mexico 4 out of 5 patients die w/o being intubated!
In Mexico 4 out of 5 patients die w/o being intubated!
Overall, in Mexico 81% of the 35 to 55-year-olds who have been confirmed to have died of Covid-19 were never connected to a ventilator!
Even among 35 to 55-year-olds who were not categorized as obese or diabetic, only 18% were ever connected to a ventilator!
Even among 35 to 55-year-olds who were not categorized as obese or diabetic, only 18% were ever connected to a ventilator!
I talked to @ajadmon, 1 of the authors of a recent study on U.S. Covid-19 patients. He explained that given prompt and effective hospital care, even people with chronic diseases can survive Covid-19. Here's the study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
Underlying conditions may make it incrementally more difficult for any individual patient to survive Covid, but don't amount to a death sentence.
But if a ventilator is not available when a patient is dying of respiratory failure, IT'S LIKE BEING LOST AT SEA WITH NO LIFE BOAT!
But if a ventilator is not available when a patient is dying of respiratory failure, IT'S LIKE BEING LOST AT SEA WITH NO LIFE BOAT!
The fact that 🇲🇽 President #AMLO’s Health Ministry devotes hours of press conferences to talking about chronic diseases during a pandemic is at best distracting & at worst a disingenuous attempt to skirt responsibility for the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Mexico.
In August, 🇲🇽 health ministry spokesman @HLGatell did an interview with @JohnMAckerman, a controversial American academic who has emerged as the top propaganda-maker for Mexico's President AMLO.
They lauded #AMLO's covid response as "scientific."
They lauded #AMLO's covid response as "scientific."
When @HLGatell talked to @JohnMAckerman he worked to heap blame on 🇲🇽's public, explaining that chronic diseases in 🇲🇽 such as obesity & diabetes are partially to blame for the impact of the pandemic.
He didn't mention that 4 out 5 patients in Mexico die w/o being intubated.
He didn't mention that 4 out 5 patients in Mexico die w/o being intubated.
In my article I explain:
"with over 100,000 confirmed patients predicted to die of Covid-19 in 🇲🇽, #AMLO needs to stop playing politics as usual & start prioritizing saving lives... instead of blaming the media for negative coverage of Mexico’s steadily rising death toll."
"with over 100,000 confirmed patients predicted to die of Covid-19 in 🇲🇽, #AMLO needs to stop playing politics as usual & start prioritizing saving lives... instead of blaming the media for negative coverage of Mexico’s steadily rising death toll."
Up until now, 🇲🇽's President #AMLO has stubbornly pushed forward with his existing agenda, seemingly believing that the pandemic is an unfortunate distraction rather than the crisis that will define his legacy as a failed policy-maker.
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