Mexico City issued 8,072 more death certificates than usual between 1 January and 20 May,

Whenever countries choose to do low levels of testing they get much lower infection rates and official Covid-19 deaths seem to also get supressed. However, they keep getting caught out by the one of the more equalising statistics they are unable to manipulate - the average death rate over the previous 5 years.

This report shows that Mexico CITY, not the country, has also been caught out. The official figures for the city are 21,000 infections and just over 2000 deaths. The excess deaths for Mexico City is 8000. Something does not add up.

The country as a whole registers just 75,000 infections and only 8134 deaths nationally. This is for a country of 90,000,000

Mexico ranks near the bottom in testing among Latin American countries with just 99 tests per 100,000 residents as of 15 May.

Romero, the report author, told the Guardian: “Given the low number of deaths reported in Mexico, one would assume that we are undercounting.”

“Confirmed cases are highly correlated with testing. Given that correlation, if a country takes a strategy where they do very little testing, it’s safe to assume confirmed deaths will also be undercounted,” Romero added.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... id-19-toll