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What Mexico’s response to H1N1 can teach us about coronavirus and future pandemics Posted on The 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic had devastating economic implications in Mexico, just as COVID-19 is having on the global economy. In 2008, Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.14 percent. A year later after the A(H1N1) crisis its GDP growth fell to -5.28 percent. Moreover, the A(H1N1) outbreak coincided with the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, when Mexico lost a significant amount of exports to the United States. Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón wrote in his memoirs that government officials feared that the A(H1N1) could have had the lethality of avian influenza: around 60 percent. By early April of that year, Mexico City then with 22 million inhabitants and a population density of approximately 5,900 inhabitants per square kilometer had become the outbreak’s epicenter. A slow response to a virus with those levels of lethality would have been cata ....
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