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Mexico Has Second-Highest Excess Mortality Rate in the World

By KELIN DILLON As Mexico begins expanding its administration of vaccines against covid-19 in its population aged from 50 to 59, a study from Free University of Berlin mathematician Raúl Rojas found that Mexico has the second-worst strategy in the world against coronavirus, only behind Peru.  The country has seen over 444,000 excess deaths than anticipated throughout the pandemic, according

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Record Deaths Suggest Major Covid-19 Undercount

Sanitization in Mexico City

By KYLIE MADRY An almost 40 percent increase in deaths from a typical year suggests that Mexico’s official covid-19 count is much lower than the actual death toll. Mexico published its “excess death” statistics late Sunday, Oct. 25, with 193,170 more deaths through September than in an average year. Officially, 88,924 people in Mexico have died of covid-19, about half

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