Prognosis
Mexico’s Excess Deaths Far Exceed Official Coronavirus Toll
- Deaths over expected levels double test-confirmed fatalities
- Overstretched health systems, many people sick but not tested
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Excess deaths in Mexico for 2020 and early 2021 exceeded 417,000, more than double the official number of fatalities from the pandemic, the federal government said in a report that also sharply raised what it called Covid-related deaths.