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On February 28, Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro shared a video via Twitter to mark the one-year anniversary of the Presidential Commission on Prevention and Fighting COVID-19. He boasted: "[W]ith certainty ... we have built a method to serve our people and protect their lives."The three-minute video listed the government’s achievements fighting COVID-19, including a "preventive campaign," preparing "58 hospitals and 400 integral diagnostic centers, distributed all around the country," and hospitalizing all COVID-19 cases.These claims are misleading and far from the reality of COVID-19 in Venezuela. Since the pandemic hit last year, experts and international organizations have watched Venezuela warily, given its crippled healthcare system. Last May, Human Rights Watch and Johns Hopkins University questioned Venezuela’s official count of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country, saying they were "likely false and that the real numbers "could in fact be thousands of times higher than official figures
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