UCLA and Mexico researchers find a dramatic increase in out-of-hospital deaths in Tijuana.
Many of Mexico’s border factories are flouting orders to suspend operations, worsening the spread of the coronavirus.
Brandon Brown, an epidemiologist at UC Riverside who was not involved in the study, said tracking emergency calls is one of the best techniques available. Many of the efforts to track COVID-19 deaths in Mexico have been anecdotal, and based on reviews of death certificates.it found 4,577 cases in Mexico City in which death certificates linked the coronavirus to fatalities between March 18 and May 12. The analysis counted cases where the disease was not confirmed but was described as a probable or likely cause.
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