Thread by @NathanielParish

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In 🇲🇽 the official numbers on Covid-19 cases & deaths don't come close to measuring the pandemic's full impact.

Including "excess deaths" it's possible that virus's real toll is 190K+!
eluniversal.com.mx/ciencia-y-salu…

According to this analysis the real impact of Covid-19 in Mexico could be 3.15 times higher than the official tally of *confirmed* deaths.

Other countries around the world have done a MUCH better job measuring the virus's real impact.

One study of 32 countries found that on average other countries been able to have officially tally around 70% of the likely deaths caused by Covid-19.

Under the leadership of #AMLO & @HLGatell 🇲🇽 is only capturing 31% of the real death toll in the official figures.

Consider this:

Donald Trump has been recognized as one worst leaders in the fight against Covid-19.

In 🇲🇽 the per capita death toll could be TWO TIMES higher than in the U.S.!

In the 🇺🇸 around 3/4 of all Covid-19 deaths are captured in the official figures.

In 🇲🇽 official figures omit 2/3 of the likely toll.

So, when the pandemic is over, Mexico's real death toll will be similar to the 🇺🇸's even though the 🇺🇸's population is 2.6x bigger!

For more context on 🇲🇽 President #AMLO's pandemic leadership-- look at how Mexico's ratio of confirmed Covid-19 deaths to excess deaths (.318 or 31.8%) compares to other countries: ourworldindata.org/covid-excess-m…

And here's the study from @nature that looks at the question of excess deaths in 32 countries. Mexico's problem with uncounted covid-19 deaths is significantly worse. nature.com/articles/d4158…