Thread by @FLAHAULT

1/9 - “Deaths in Mexico last year were 52% higher than in previous yes, putting the rate of excess deaths during the #COVID19 pandemic well above that in some countries seen as suffering the worst outbreaks in the world, including the US, UK and Brazil.”ft.com/content/44a1f0…

2/9 - “New official data showed Mexico has registered 977,081 deaths since Mar 2020, compared with an expected 641,556 for the same period based on the 2015-19 death tolls. Since the start of the epidemic, Mexico has more than 2m cases and almost 180,000 deaths from #COVID19.”

3/9 - “Total excess deaths per million in Mexico last year were 2,602 — 52% higher than 1,713 in the US, 75% higher than the UK, and 100% than Brazil’s 1,047, Eugenio Sánchez, a Mexican statistician who has examined world mortality data compiled by Israeli economist A Karlinsky.”

4/9 - “Peru was the world’s worst-hit nation, according to that data, and Ecuador and Bolivia have also been hard hit in terms of excess deaths during the pandemic, underscoring the virus' heavy human toll on Latin America.”

5/9 - “Mexico City’s excess deaths tally per million was 46 per cent higher than the next worst city, Lima; 157 per cent above New York, 190 per cent above Madrid, and some 349 per cent higher than London, according to Mexican data and the FT’s coronavirus tracker.”

6/9-“Mexico imposed a nationwide lockdown from Mar to Jun 20 but has not enforced confinement measures, enacted travel bans or made mask-wearing mandatory, arguing that draconian measures could not work in a country with millions in informal jobs needing to work in order to eat.”

7/9-“These are the conseq of a strategy based on trying to do nothing to reduce the damage instead of trying to prevent the conseq,”said M Jaramillo-Molina, LSE who researches inequality. He found that the death toll in Mex City had disproportionately hit poorest neighbourhoods.”

8/9 - “The reason there are lots of deaths is that there have been lots of infections,” she said. “Mexico didn’t close its borders or do mass testing and isolation.”

9/9 - “The nationwide excess mortality data could yet be revised higher since reporting from some states experiences delays.”