Thread by @DrEricDing

BREAKING—Mexico 🇲🇽 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has contracted #COVID19. He says he has mild symptoms thus far.

I’ve been warning for months Mexico has a serious uncontrolled epidemic. @HLGatell dismissed and says it was fine cuz hospitals weren’t full.

2) Rewind to June 21 2020, I was very worried and warning about Mexico’s 50% positivity that matched the high numbers of NY (state) & average 7 day positivity of Spain and Italy. Positivity reflects both limited testing and/or caseload—both worrisome. @MaxCRoser super worried too

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1274816278197342209

3) Here is a good review of what happened after.

https://twitter.com/safamote/status/1275505728061616128

4) Meanwhile, According to Johns Hopkins University, Mexico has recorded at least 1,752,347 Covid-19 cases and 149,084 people have died from the virus in the country.

5) In hardest-hit Mexico City, nearly 30 public hospitals report they have reached 100% percent capacity, and many others are approaching that mark. The city's Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has urged residents to not go out unless absolutely necessary.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/24…

6) In December, Mexico City and the state of Mexico were placed into "red level," the highest measure on the country's stoplight alert system for Covid-19 restrictions.

Lopez Obrador, who rarely wears a mask, has faced widespread criticism over his handling of the pandemic.

7) Mexico has one of the lowest testing rates of any major country around the world and tests are often expensive and difficult to come by.

7) Mexico #COVID19 deaths skyrocketing too. And this is despite poor testing of total COVID.

Data from @OurWorldInData ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/co…

8) Excess mortality in Mexico even higher. 275k last month, despite offices death toll just 110k from #COVID19. That was also before recent spike in cases and deaths. So likely even higher.

https://twitter.com/a__tapia/status/1353522605794451463