“I have great faith that we will move our dear Mexico forwards, that misfortunes and pandemics won’t affect us,” the president told the public on Sunday.
. That’s 2.3 beds per 100,000 people.
According to a prominent Mexican epidemiologist, who asked to remain anonymous because of possible hostility from government authorities, Mexico will see a spike in coronavirus cases in the next couple of weeks, and within a month the death toll will begin to rise significantly. “It’s not that Mexico isn’t taking the problem seriously enough. It’s that it did not take it seriously when it should have, and now we are starting to see community spread,” the doctor said.
The government’s nonchalance may be the result of previous experience. In 2009, the Mexican governmentto contain the spread of a new strain of swine flu. Public life was virtually shut down in the capital for several weeks, which took its toll on an already struggling economy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
It is unclear how López-Gatell is assessing the magnitude of the current risk when no significant amount of testing has been done on the population. At the end of last week,
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