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Another Vision of the Situation of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico During 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
Abstract
The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases and deaths registered in Mexico during 2020 could be underestimated, due to the sentinel surveillance adopted in this country. Some consequences of following this type of epidemiological surveillance were the high case fatality rate and the high positivity rate for COVID-19 shown in Mexico in 2020. During this year, the Mexican Ministry of Health only considered cases from the public health system, which followed this sentinel surveillance, but did not consider those cases from the private health system. To better understand this pandemic, it is important to include all the results obtained by all the institutions capable of testing for COVID-19; thus, the Mexican Government could then make good decisions to protect the population from this disease.
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- Policy Analysis
- Information
- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , December 2022 , pp. 2296 - 2298
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- © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.
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