Mexico has now surpassed the govt-acknowledged number of COVID-19 deaths the task force leader gave as the "catastrophic" scenario. The worst-case estimate of 60K deaths was itself a moving upwards revision. None of the usual task force members were at tonight's press conference.

As someone who has been tuning into these nightly pressers for months, it was apparent to me they were about to give this bad and embarrassing announcement when they started off the technical report with a international look at deaths per million because: https://twitter.com/SYoungReports/status/1296123494120542213

How did it come to this and how to turn it around? That's a question I have yet to hear officials reflect on at any one of the pressers held since the start of the pandemic. Not when Mexico surpassed its projected peak, not when deaths shot past every country but the US & Brazil.

So how DID it come to this? This thread from the other day gets into some of the details. But let's take a closer look at Mexico's testing policy. One the one hand, testing is - and has been for months - far too sparse in relation to the outbreak's size. https://twitter.com/SYoungReports/status/1296129062990155776