In Mexico, “Atypical pneumonia” is killing more people than COVID-19 – IMSS denies it.

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Source: https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2020...mss-denies-it/


In Mexico, “Atypical pneumonia” is killing more people than COVID-19 – IMSS denies it.
By Yucatan Times on April 8, 2020

CANCUN Quintana Roo – The newspaper Noticaribe Peninsular presented a report which stated that the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) located in Cancun’s 510 block registered the death of 19 people in recent days due to “atypical pneumonia.

The IMSS authorities have kept the situation airtight and do not report to the patients’ relatives about the real health condition, which also puts the general population at risk.

Until yesterday, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, some 41 patients were diagnosed with “atypical pneumonia” in the hospital, according to the medical reports in the ‘initial observation’ section. In addition to these, 15 citizens with COVID-19, including a woman who is almost six months pregnant, were also diagnosed.

Nineteen deaths in the last 13 days.

The third floor of the hospital, destined for Internal Medicine, became the area for patients with this ailment. An isolated area where employees do not want to go, even by accident.

Thursday 26 and Friday, March 27, were critical days. The IMSS registered eight deaths from ‘atypical’ pneumonia, according to sources inside the institution. In addition, IMSS workers reported a lack of supplies. From Friday 3 to Sunday, April 5, the figure increased: 10 deaths classified as ‘atypical’ pneumonia...

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Mexico Acute Lung Infections Up 50%, Imply Covid Undercount

By
Andrea Navarro

April 24, 2020, 2:19 PM EDT Updated on April 25, 2020, 12:32 PM EDT

• Cases in April have spiked from a year ago, data show
• Mexico uses selective testing model that may misrepresent data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...rus-undercount

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Source: https://elpasoheraldpost.com/juarez-...ages-and-fear/

Juarez COVID-19 reality: Unreliable numbers, insufficient testing, PPE shortages and fear
Estefania Mitre April 29, 2020

...Medical professionals I spoke with say some patients would present symptoms, and before they get their results, they die, and their families never get a clear diagnosis.

There is some uncertainty due to the long waits for the results amid the medical staff, “I have no doubt I can be treating positive COVID-19 cases; unfortunately, because the results take so long to get to the patient’s hands we don’t have a concrete answer whether the patient is a confirmed case or not,” said another one of the nurses from the hospital.

In addition to the testing and test result lag, the medical staff has been instructed to report these deaths as “atypical pneumonia,” which is how staff identifies those cases that were never diagnosed.

Then, as hospital protocols do not allow for an autopsy to be performed and with some funeral homes opting for direct cremation, there is no way to define whether these people died due to COVID-19 complications or not. Hence, these deaths are not being included in the official COVID-19 death report.

Several Mexican news outlets and many citizens have raised their concerns through social media.

On Tuesday, in response to the uproar over the possible under reporting of COVID-19 deaths, Undersecretary of Prevention and the Promotion of Health, Dr. Hugo L?pez-Gatell Ram?rez declared that the association of the atypical pneumonia diagnosis and
COVID-19, is “an obssesion.”

L?pez-Gatell explained that during the COVID-19 outbreak, every pneumonia should be categorized as a coronavirus complication until tests prove otherwise. However, according to officials at IMSS Hospital #66, this has not been the case....

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This Thursday, the death of another Investigative Police officer from the Mexico City Attorney General's Office was reported due to atypical pneumonia.
It is Carlos Hern?ndez ?ngeles, 58 years old, who was admitted to the ISSSTE in Zaragoza under the diagnosis of atypical pneumonia.
It may interest you: CDMX exceeds 400 killed by Covid-19; there are 805 intubated
According to reports, there are now four officers killed and seven officials of the local Attorney General's Office who have died of Covid-19 suspects.

https://www.excelsior.com.mx/comunid...n-cdmx/1379313

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in homeless population of Mexico city?


Don Armando, indigent helped in Tlalpan, with atypical pneumonia due to possible coronavirus


Don Armando was short of breath, he was alone and on the street. The doctors assure that it evolves favorably

DRAFTING SOURCE: NEWSCASTS TELEVISA FROM: CDMX, MEXICOMAY 1, 2020 | 05:40 AM CST


https://noticieros.televisa.com/ulti...a-coronavirus/

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En Cuautla reportan 60 muertes por neumon?a at?pica y “probable covid-19”

JAIME LUIS BRITO27 abril, 2020

CUAUTLA, Mor. (apro) .- The head of Official Office number 1 of the Civil Registry of Cuautla, Emilio Celestino Mora, reported that so far 60 deaths have been reported in the municipality from atypical pneumonia and "probable covid-19".


In contrast, the Ministry of Health pointed out that in the town there are 19 confirmed cases of covid-19 and two deaths, but medical personnel who asked not to disclose their data said that this figure is not real because the tests are limited and only applied to people whose state of health is serious and for that reason they remain hospitalized.

more..

https://www.proceso.com.mx/627638/en...bable-covid-19

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Source: https://www.sdpnoticias.com/nacional...xico-2020.html

Health reports fewer deaths from atypical pneumonia in 2020 than in previous 5 years
MAY 08, 2020 22:04 Alexis Pav?n
The undersecretary of Health, Hugo L?pez-Gatell, reported that from January to April of this 2020, the CDMX has reported 2,710 deaths from atypical pneumonia.

Mexico.- The Ministry of Health (SSa) reported that Mexico adds fewer deaths from atypical pneumonia in the period from January-April of this 2020, than that registered in 5 previous years.

In the daily conference to monitor the progress of the coronavirus pandemic in national territory, the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo L?pez-Gatell, reported that according to official data, so far in 2020 in the City from Mexico (CDMX) there have been 2 thousand 710 deaths due to "unspecified or atypical pneumonia"; while in the rest of the country the statistic reaches 7,331 deaths.

This figure is lower than what was registered in 2019, when during the same period from January to April, CDMX reported 3 587 deaths and the rest of the country 12 thousand 76. In 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015, the total figures varied between 8 thousand and 10 thousand for the national territory, and between 3 thousand 500 and 3 thousand 100 for the capital of the country.

At the insistence of national and international media on the classification of "atypical pneumonia" for deceased people with possible symptoms of Covid-19 coronavirus, L?pez-Gatell clarified that although it is called "atypical", this type of category is constant in the knowledge epidemiological, with manifestations of up to 30 percent of total deaths from respiratory disease since 2000.

As for the meaning of the concept, the federal official said that it is more of a description than a properly scientific definition.
"Atypical pneumonia is a clinical diagnosis, it is not a diagnostic category of epidemiological surveillance. Atypical does not mean that it is rare. The only thing that means atypical (..) when there was a deterioration in respiratory function that did not correspond to radiological images . It is not a diagnostic category of diseases "Hugo L?pez-Gatell. Undersecretary of Health.

The undersecretary recalled, in addition, that in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government established the criterion of medical judgment to resolve deaths of suspected cases that although it was not possible to take a test, based on their history and clinical record, it can be attribute his death to Covid-19.

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Source: https://plumaslibres.com.mx/2020/05/...rcado-hidalgo/

The leader of tenants of the Hidalgo market in Veracruz dies of alleged ?atypical pneumonia?
There are already 3 people related to the Hidalgo Market who die, the latter of alleged atypical pneumonia
By digital journalists - 9 May 20 in Main note
Veracruz, Ver.- The market leader Hidalgo de Veracruz, X?chitl Savi??n died of alleged atypical pneumonia, and tonight she will be cremated because they recommended to the family that there not be a ceremony where people crowded together.
Locals in the market confirm the death of the leader, who they initially claimed had diabetes, but who strangely acquired severe pneumonia suddenly and died quickly.
Meanwhile, on social networks it was also revealed that he died of COVID19, his cousin R?mulo Savi??n, said he did not know the real causes that caused his death because everything was very fast.
Two COVID tenants have already died from that market. Others fear that it is a source of contagion if you attend the place, take extreme precautions by wearing mask and gloves.
They formally reported that the market leader will be cremated this Saturday without the religious funeral rituals.

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Source: https://www.xataka.com.mx/investigac...no-se-mantiene

The death toll in Mexico from COVID-19 lies, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal; government remains
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@Nosedenudos
Update, 5:30 pm: Undersecretary Hugo L?pez-Gatell has uploaded a video in response to articles from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The information is at the end of the post.

There are many voices that claim that the diagnostic tests for COVID-19 have been insufficient in Mexico. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal published articles suggesting that something is happening in Mexico around the official figures of the COVID-19 epidemic.

It does not help that in recent days Mexico was designated by the 'Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development' as the country with the least number of tests per inhabitant, a list in which Iceland ranks first with 134 tests per 1,000 inhabitants, but Mexico hardly does .4 tests. In the list are Italy with 29.7 tests, Germany with 25.1, Portugal with 22.7, South Korea with 11.6, Holland with 11.3 and the United States with 15.6.

The average is 23 tests per 1,000 inhabitants.

Probable COVID-19

The problem would explain the fact that there are numerous deaths caused by pneumonia where only the assumption of COVID-19 has remained. The Wall Street Journal had access to the study of 105 death certificates from Mexico City, where in 64 "atypical pneumonia" is mentioned as the cause of death. In 52 of the 64 minutes, the treating doctor would have listed COVID-19 as a possible underlying cause.

Although the newspaper admits that its sample does not have the methodological rigor to consider itself scientific, it links the evidence with the statements of former Health Secretary Salom?n Chertorivski, who previously said that the real impact of the pandemic is being underestimated.

The undersecretary of prevention and health promotion, Hugo L?pez-Gatell, has previously spoken about the effect of not having confirmation of COVID-19 in cases of patients who die prematurely. He himself has said that "we should assume that all pneumonia is COVID-19, until there is evidence to the contrary." However, recently Jos? Narro, president of UNAM and former secretary of health, mentioned that there are cases of pneumonia that, for the record, are not considered as COVID-19.

In relation to the subject, Dr. L?pez-Gatell had a radio interview with L?pez Doriga this Friday, May 8. There, he mentioned again that because a person dies before they have a positive diagnosis of COVID-19, it does not mean that they are absolutely ruled out. He clarified that all deaths from pneumonia are analyzed by a council and subsequently ruled.

Those data, he said, will be disclosed "in due course."

"At the time, that part of the statistics, like what has happened in other countries, will be incorporated, and most likely, as we have been saying, we are going to find that there are more deaths, than are directly recognizable by laboratory confirmation"

The New York Times not only addresses the issue of a lack of diagnostic tests, but it raises a much more grim scenario: one in which the figures are not deliberately showing the full scenario of the pandemic in Mexico.

The newspaper's text assures that confidential sources mentioned to him that in Mexico City it is known that federal information based on the sentinel epidemiological model is fallible. For this reason, the head of the CDMX government, Claudia Sheinbaum, had instructed to review hospital by hospital to confirm infection and death figures, an operation that would have concluded that the deaths are three times more than those shown in the daily epidemiological report of the Ministry of Health.

The epidemiological report of May 8 reports a total of 29,616 confirmed cases and 2,961 deaths, of which 696 would have been in the capital. According to The New York Times, the number of deaths is more than 2,500 on CDMX.

The supposed discrepancy of official numbers with which the medium is obtained by a confidential source, is what allows him to arrive at the assumption that the scenario could be repeated in the rest of the country.

The official position

With so much movement, the spokesman for the presidency, Jes?s Ram?rez Cuevas, said via Twitter that the Mexican government does not hide information about infections or deaths, "as some media suppose."

This Friday, May 8, the head of the CDMX government, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that according to the Ministry of Health, 696 deaths related to COVID-19 have been registered in the capital.

At a conference, Sheinbaum assured that there is coordination between the federal and local government and reiterated that there is total transparency in cases, numbers and hospital saturation: "there is a definition that a person who dies from COVID must have a test, there are scientific committees that define which they are the criteria to establish when a person died from COVID or not, "he said.
In response to articles

In response to the published articles, the undersecretary L?pez Gatell, through a video, details that in some patients it is not possible to confirm the diagnosis of COVID-19 before his death. For this reason, the mechanism he spoke about in the radio interview with L?pez D?riga, the diagnosis by opinion, has been established. In addition to explaining the method, he says that He "catches the eye" for the timing of the articles.