Posted on 05/11/2020 8:54:16 AM PDT by Theoria
Officials in San Diego suburb attribute rise in cases to legal crossings from nearby Tijuana, one of Mexico’s hardest-hit cities
Hospitals in this border city south of San Diego are struggling to cope with a large number of Covid-19 patients, an influx they attribute to legal crossings from nearby Tijuana, one of Mexico’s cities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
Health-care nonprofit Scripps Health says it already is near capacity for patients critically ill with Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, at its Chula Vista hospital. Sharp HealthCare, which owns Chula Vista’s largest hospital, had to turn away ambulances during some busy days last month, according to the hospital.
As more states, including California, ease social-distancing restrictions, the crisis south of San Diego illustrates a new threat: that Mexico’s struggles to tackle the pandemic could spill over into the U.S.
San Diego County has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in California, behind only Los Angeles and its neighbor Riverside County. Within San Diego County, Chula Vista and nearby communities have the highest rate of infections per 100,000 people and the number has been rising. In Chula Vista, it was 234 per 100,000 as of Wednesday, compared with 172 a week earlier, and 133 for the county overall, San Diego County data show.
Dr. Juan Tovar, an emergency physician and chief operating executive for Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista, said the influx is mostly people who have dual citizenship or dual residence and habitually cross back and forth, rather than Mexicans coming into the U.S. without legal authorization.
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Open Borders causes this.
>>Dr. Juan Tovar, an emergency physician and chief operating executive for Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista, said the influx is mostly people who have dual citizenship or dual residence and habitually cross back and forth, rather than Mexicans coming into the U.S. without legal authorization.
Of course it is - it’s only the people legally crossing that are the problem, all those illegals are miraculously infection free.
Dr. ‘Juan Tovar’, i.e. the ‘Juan Tovar the border’
LOL
CA?
ISGAS.
I Scarcely Give A S.....
sorry you feel that way, take away san fran, los angeles, a few other liberal ghettos and you have a mostly conservative state where much of the US Navy resides and has their ships and aircraft...
Or at least, Open Bordellos!
Let’s not forget Jim Robinson is there too...
We have to find ways to sympathize (or in my case, empathize) with our conservative brethren in The Golden State, because there are a lot of them there.
Build the wall.
¡Si!
And my nephew and his wife; they're very conservative. In fact, he's trying to get into local politics; hopefully, he can make some changes.
Sigh. I live in the most leftist of states, and it really bothers me that there are other conservatives who share my plight.
My dad was extremely conservative, and when he ran for office back in the Seventies, he had to run as a Democrat to even have a chance. One can only imagine how it is now.
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