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Mexico’s Response to COVID-19: A Case Study

7 Apr 2021

With the world’s 11th largest population, Mexico is, at the time of writing, the country with the third most reported COVID-19 deaths worldwide and the fourth The rest of this chapter is devoted to characterizing the health impact of the pandemic in Mexico. [...] The goal of the chapter is to establish the fundamental empirical facts before analyzing the high rates of transmission within families, many of them living in crowded conditions in multigenerational reasons behind them in the rest of the report. [...] It seeks to elucidate the reasons behind the high burden of disease in the The Impact of the Pandemic in Numbers country and produce insights and recommendations that can support a more effective response, both for the rest of this pandemic and for future health emergencies. [...] anticipated a steep decline in the epidemic curve after the peak and the end of the “first cycle” of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign begins. [...] The vertical size of the graph at a given time point reflects Figure 3 shows that confirmed COVID-19 deaths are only a fraction of excess deaths observed in the the proportion of deaths that occurred in that date relative to total observed deaths since the beginning of country since the beginning of the pandemic.
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