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| Coronavirus Jumps the Border, Overwhelming Hospitals in California |
| 2020-07-01 |
| [NYT] "We worked hard to flatten the curve in California," said Carmela Coyle, president of the California Hospital Association, who issued an appeal to hospital systems across the state for help. "Now we have a surge in the Imperial Valley because the situation is so severe in Mexicali." Other parts of the border, including San Diego County, also have been scrambling with a wave of patients from Baja California, the state adjacent to California. Border towns in Arizona are experiencing an increase in infections that health officials believe is tied to people coming in from Sonora state. "Our E.R. is used to receiving patients from Mexico for things like complications from bariatric surgery and plastic surgery, and alternative cancer care, but this pandemic has brought a whole different dynamic," said Juan Tovar, physician operations executive at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, across the border from Tijuana, which has been hard hit by the pandemic. "We’re seeing Covid patients arrive at our E.R. who are very ill, whose disease has progressed to an advanced stage because care wasn’t readily available in Baja California," he said. The border influx is likely the reason that Chula Vista has more cases per capita than San Diego, a city five times larger. |
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| #1 Beautiful Baja California. Used to be a playground. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-01 19:19 |