Originally Posted by
GUWonder
This was surely just the tip of the iceberg in terms of US persons who found themselves with a positive Covid-19 test result in Mexico. We will never know how many of those who ended up in such a situation in Mexico decided to figure out other ways to travel back to the US and traveled around when they really should have been sheltering in place in Mexico upon discovering that they had become a positive test case for Covid-19.
Agree. I found the article interesting, because I haven't really seen firsthand accounts posted anywhere else of what the experience is like if one tests positive in Mexico. It certainly seems highly variable and based on the resort, rather than any sort of public health/government policy.
Out of curiosity, I recently called to inquire at a couple of different Mexican hotels myself. It was tough to get straight answers -- one hotel in Punta Mita that offers on-site testing wouldn't really give specifics, other than saying they had discounted rooms available for quarantine. However, when I asked directly how they've handled past cases of positive tests, they made it very clear -- "Oh, we've actually never had anyone test positive here."
Originally Posted by
lobo411
Shrug...
Summary: a clickbait-y article designed to grab eyeballs around spring break season.
Perhaps... but I searched and couldn't really find accounts of people's experiences on FT or elsewhere, so while the article might be clickbait, the stories seem genuine, and I found it interesting to see how positive tests are being handled by hotels.