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Source: https://www.vallartadaily.com/mexicos-covid-19-numbers-arent-trustworthy-mexican-academy-of-health/
April 2, 2020
•Vallarta Daily News
Mexico’s COVID-19 numbers aren’t trustworthy: Mexican Academy of Health
It’s been one month since the first case of COVID-19 was reported, and yet, only 12,000 tests for the virus have been given in the country, or 3,000 every week in a country with a population of 129 million people.
Hospitals in Mexico have been flooded with people who show symptoms of COVID-19 but tests are still being refused for most patients because the patient has no history of travel in the previous 14-days or has knowingly come in contact with confirmed cases of COVID-19. A criterion that is now obsolete after community infections have been seen in the country.
To complicate the testing process and properly diagnosing COVID-19 infections in Mexico, the country has refused to allow rapid tests to better understand the virus and its progression through the country.
Mexico has questioned the reliability of rapid tests for COVID-19 and has put little importance on testing and proper reporting of the pandemic as it crosses the country.
“The numbers of infections of COVID-19 in Mexico are not trustworthy, they are not credible; I will trust the dead more, it is a more truthful number,” warned the expert doctor of health of the Mexican Academy of Health, Alheli Calder?n
It is not credible, for example, in Baja California there are only 37 cases, while in California, United States, there are 8,700 cases; that there are 1,413 in Arizona and 18 in Sonora, or that in New Mexico, 315, and in Chihuahua, 11; in Texas, 3,403, and in Coahuila, 57, and in Nuevo Le?n, 78.
Mexico and the U.S. sees millions of people crossing their borders every day for work and pleasure visits between both countries...
April 2, 2020
•Vallarta Daily News
Mexico’s COVID-19 numbers aren’t trustworthy: Mexican Academy of Health
It’s been one month since the first case of COVID-19 was reported, and yet, only 12,000 tests for the virus have been given in the country, or 3,000 every week in a country with a population of 129 million people.
Hospitals in Mexico have been flooded with people who show symptoms of COVID-19 but tests are still being refused for most patients because the patient has no history of travel in the previous 14-days or has knowingly come in contact with confirmed cases of COVID-19. A criterion that is now obsolete after community infections have been seen in the country.
To complicate the testing process and properly diagnosing COVID-19 infections in Mexico, the country has refused to allow rapid tests to better understand the virus and its progression through the country.
Mexico has questioned the reliability of rapid tests for COVID-19 and has put little importance on testing and proper reporting of the pandemic as it crosses the country.
“The numbers of infections of COVID-19 in Mexico are not trustworthy, they are not credible; I will trust the dead more, it is a more truthful number,” warned the expert doctor of health of the Mexican Academy of Health, Alheli Calder?n
It is not credible, for example, in Baja California there are only 37 cases, while in California, United States, there are 8,700 cases; that there are 1,413 in Arizona and 18 in Sonora, or that in New Mexico, 315, and in Chihuahua, 11; in Texas, 3,403, and in Coahuila, 57, and in Nuevo Le?n, 78.
Mexico and the U.S. sees millions of people crossing their borders every day for work and pleasure visits between both countries...