With 65241 deaths recorded by Covid-19 (as of September 1, 2020), the pandemic has hit Mexico very hard. The death toll in Mexico has already exceeded the degrees, first of all, designed as “catastrophic” by local fitness authorities. The number of patients with Covid-19 in Mexico who die before being connected to fans is alarming. According to Mexico’s public epidemiological surveillance database, only 20% of Covid-19 patients who died in the country were intubated. 51,924 patients with Covid-19 never obtained a respiratory remedy before they died. Today, in Mexico, thousands of Covid-19 patients die each week without access to the kind of critical intensive care their lives may have stored.
In Mexico, patients with Covid-19 die because public hospitals fail to save them. The Mexican president has actively encouraged others with symptoms to fight the virus at home. While the official number of Covid-19 deaths in Mexico is exceeded only through figures recorded in the United States and Brazil, it is more or less on par with India, a country with a population ten times that of Mexico. We also know that the official death toll in Mexico is only a fraction of the real one. Tens of thousands of patients in Mexico never ask for help, are never tested and are not found, but when the excess deaths are counted in the year, Mexico will stand out as one of the most egregious cases of mismanagement in the event of a pandemic.
The root of the challenge in Mexico is the failure of leadership. Like the United States and Brazil, Mexico is ruled by an incompetent iconoclast. For more than six months, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has much more power to fustigate the media and its political “adversaries” than to warn the public of the most immediate risk posed by the coronavirus.
Today, Mexico stands out for its incredibly low levels of control and the terribly high levels of countless deaths that are likely caused by contagion. According to the capita base, Mexico performs only 2% more controls than the Mexican government in the United States estimates that tens of thousands No more Covid-19-like deaths have been reported. Arrogant and anti-intellectual, López Obrador has made his way through the fitness crisis. While claiming to delegate the message and politics of the pandemic to experts and scientists in his Department of Health, he refuses to wear a mask in public and jokes that the mask is not important. He has refrained from mentioning the fact that 8 out of 10 patients with Covid-19 in Mexico were never intubated with a fan before they died.
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, López Obrador insists that his government wins the fight against Covid-19, praises Mexican public hospitals for their paintings, and assures the public that the death toll in Mexico is largely due to to the prevalence of chronic diseases in Mexico. He did not comment on the fact that the death rate of Covid-19 patients in imSS public hospitals is 3 times higher than in personal hospitals. Only 15% of Covid-19 patients treated in renowned personal hospitals in Mexico die, while a portion of Covid patients in poorly equipped IMSS facilities do not survive. the fans are still available.
López Obrador’s communication strategy appears to be aimed at shifting the duty of Covid-19’s deaths from public establishments to the public. After all, Mexico is the world’s largest market for drink consumption per capita. Overall, about 40% of Mexican adults are obese and more than one in ten have diabetes.
Hospitals around the world have found that obese Patients with Covid-19 are more likely to require intensive care, but it is still wrong to say that Mexican patients with Covid-19 die because they are obese or poorly healthy. to an express virus that causes respiratory failure and dies in under-funded hospitals and poor supplies to provide intensive care to tens of thousands of patients, many of whom would likely require immediate hospitalization, hospitals, and weeks of intensive care to survive.
Overall, nearly three-quarters of all patients with Covid-19 treated with fans die in Mexico, a survival rate well below that of hospitalized patients in the United States. In Mexican hospitals, only 26. 6% of patients with Covid-19 intubated. for patients with diabetes or obesity who are intubated are not particularly worse. Just over 26% of obese patients and 23. 2% of diabetic patients after being intubated in Mexico.
The main trend is not that Mexican patients with Covid-19 are poorly health-poor, but that extensive care sets in Mexican public hospitals fail to save most of the patients they treat. a key determinant of the survival of Patients with Covid-19. In the United States and other countries, enthusiasts have proven to be an essential tool for saving lives because of the pandemic.
The most shocking phenomenon in Mexico is the staggering number of Covid-19 patients who have died without being connected to fans. In Mexico City alone, 6,218 patients with Covid-19 are classified as dying without having won respiratory treatment. In mexico’s neighboring state, 7,825 patients with Covid-19 have died without being intubated. In neighboring Puebla state, 2,777 patients have died without being connected to a fan. However, López Obrador continues to boast that thousands of beds are available for extensive care.
The Mexican president appears to be hopeful that his country’s electorate will settle for his attempt to link Mexico’s tragic death rate from Covid-19 with the pre-existing phenomenon of widespread chronic disease. But, a team of doctors and public fitness experts who read the results of Covid-19 patients in intensive care suites in the United States, found that when other points are held constant, diabetes and obesity are not related to a greatest threat of death. of Covid-19 once patients are intubated in the intensive care unit (ICU). Even though patients with safe underlying situations appear to be overrepresented in the Covid-19 death knowledge pool, other people with those situations can still do so if they get good enough hospital care. A comprehensive review of Covid-19 patients admitted to the ICU in the United States found that more than 60% d, yet survivors spend nine days in intensive care and 16 days in hospital on average. In Mexico, more than a portion of all Covid-19 patients spent less than a week in the hospital before dying and more than a third were hospitalized for 3 days or less before dying.
While in the United States, nearly nine out of 10 intensive care patients are intubated within two weeks of their arrival at an intensive care unit in Mexico, the opposite is true: most patients die even before being connected to a fan. In the original state of López Obrador in Tabasco, only 1 in 10 patients with Covid-1nine was connected to a fan before he died.
The data contained in Mexico’s National Public Epidemiological Surveillance Database (SINAVE) show how well the virus has impacted the country. In Mexico, 44. 5% of those who died from Covid-19 were 60 years of age or younger. In 2020, according to official count, 28419 patients with Covid-19 under the age of 61 have died in Mexico, which is not unusual in these patients is that they were never intubated before they died. Overall, in Mexico, 81% of people between the age of 35 and 55 whose death by Covid-19 was shown were never connected to a fan. Even among people in their 35s and 55s who were not classified as obese or diabetic, only 18% were connected to a fan, an extraordinarily low level. compared to the overall degrees of fan access for Covid-19 patients in the United States, Italy and even China. In Mexico, young and healthy patients die because public hospitals do not provide effective treatment.
I spoke to one of the authors of the study on American Covid-19 patients and he explained that with immediate and effective hospital care, even other people with chronic illnesses can suffer from Covid-19. Underlying conditions like diabetes. or hypertension can make survival increasingly difficult, but they are not a death sentence. On the other hand, if a ventilator is not available when a patient dies of respiratory failure, they are lost at sea without a lifeboat. he will fight alone but will not get any help in the open air. Being obese would possibly increase the likelihood that a Covid-19 patient will require medical assistance, however it is the quality of care and access to the ventilator remedy that will determine whether the patient lives or dies.
The fact that López Obrador’s fitness ministry spends hours of press meetings talking about chronic diseases during a pandemic is a distraction at best and a deception attempt to evade duty due to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Mexico in the worst of cases. But, with more than 100,000 patients shown expected to die from Covid-19 in Mexico, López Obrador will have to avoid gambling politics as usual and start prioritizing saving lives. López Obrador will have to start treating Covid-19 as a historic emergency that warrants a shifting mobilization of public and personal resources rather than blaming the media for the negative politics of the emerging death toll in Mexico. The message in Mexico (and elsewhere) deserves to focus on encouraging other people with symptoms to get tested and see a doctor long before they have trouble breathing. While Mexico’s hospitals and large care centers are operating well below capacity, there is still a wonderful opportunity to save lives. So far, however, López Obrador has stubbornly pushed his existing schedule, supposedly believing the pandemic to be an unfortunate distraction rather than the crisis that will outline his legacy as a failed legislator.
Note: This article refers to statistics collected from Mexico’s national epidemiological surveillance database. Current death totals correspond to the September 1, 2020 file.
I am a political analyst and focused on Latin America, I divide my time between New York and Mexico, my book Searching For Modern Mexico was published in
I am a political analyst focused on Latin America, I divide my time between New York and Mexico City, my book Searching For Modern Mexico was published in 2019, I have written reports and opinion articles on business, organized crime and politics for The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Americas Quarterly, Fortune and several other publications. I have a master’s degree in foreign relations from Columbia University (SIPA). In recent years, I have had the opportunity to paint on projects in Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, India and China.