FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - ARCHIVE: Mexico 2020 Coronavirus / COVID-19 travel alerts, information, discussion
Old May 20, 2020, 7:29 pm
  #62  
JDiver
Moderator: American AAdvantage
 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
Originally Posted by Section 107
in the moment they know they are at the peak? yeah, right. also, they have only 10% of the daily confirmations than the US and marginally fewer new daily cases than the US has daily deaths? methinks they are not robustly testing.... oh wait, neither is the US.
I believe a truer measure is that the crematoria and funeral parlors in CDMX are overwhelmed, with an excess mortality rate exceeding 100%. The funeral home data in Mexico City implies a 250% actual COVID mortality over what the government is reporting.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN22W2VG
JDiver is offline