Posted on 06/30/2020 9:46:57 AM PDT by ransomnote
Hospitals are airlifting patients to facilities hundreds of miles away to handle an influx of Americans and U.S. green card holders sickened in Mexico.
“We are a teeny tiny hospital but have always been able to manage, calling in staff on their days off or transferring one or two patients out a day to bigger facilities,” said Ms. Cruz, director of the emergency department of the El Centro Regional Medical Center. “We’d get a surge for 24 or 48 hours that required all hands on the deck.”
Then came the coronavirus.
The hospital, which has a 20-bed intensive-care unit, has been overwhelmed with ailing residents of the Imperial Valley, as well as Americans and U.S. green card holders fleeing overcrowded clinics and hospitals in Mexicali, a city of 1.1 million on the other side of the border.
To alleviate the pressure, hospitals in nearby San Diego and Riverside counties began accepting transfers in April. But the intensifying crisis prompted California last week to activate an extraordinary response, enlisting hospitals as far north as Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Sacramento to accept patients from this remote southeastern corner of the state.
Last week, a patient was being transferred from the hospital in El Centro every two to three hours, compared to 17 in an entire month before the Covid-19 pandemic, Ms. Cruz said on a recent morning as a helicopter prepared to airlift a patient and five ambulances dropped off patients near a trio of tents erected outside the hospital to triage new arrivals.
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“We are a teeny tiny hospital “
Send Them Back!
How?
I thought he was trying to sabotage the economy by keeping things closed which drives new cases down.
Have we shifted to the new conspiracy and no one told me?
You really outta try reading the article some time. It’s not hard and you might enjoy it.
Because he locked down the economy, and then got outted for boosting Covid-19 by forcing sick people into rest homes, Gavin has begun importing Covid-19 from Mexico and flying sick patients all over the state to get those Covid-19 numbers up up up during lockdown for the rest of us.
And Trump felt it prudent to praise Newsom, while dumping on Georgia GOP Gov. Kemp!
Pfft!
These are American citizens or legal residents who are getting sick in Mexico.
They have a right to come here and there's no way for him to keep them out. He certainly doesn't need to recruit them.
Who knew?
Other sources report that the vast majority of these are illegals. Same in Texas and Arizona.
Same in Oregon
Lots of Americans live in Mexico its cheaper if you are on SS.
Build the wall.
They are.. its slow going
If so, why is CBP letting them in?
Or do you think patients so sick they need to be hospitalized are evading CBP and sneaking across?
...demand mail-in-voting because the Dems cannot win any other way.
California has been voting Democratic since the 1990's, long before this mail-in ballot and coronavirus business started. As a lifelong Californian it pains me to say this but California is a lost cause.
https://www.270towin.com/states/California
Yes.
I have more respect for CBP than that.
As a lifelong Californian it pains me to say this but California is a lost cause.
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Atta Boy, Patriot! WHINE AND RETREAT! WHINE AND RETREAT!
Keep sayin’ it. Maybe people will follow your ‘example’.
A thread here a few hours ago pointed out that a new NIH Rule sez that for every new Covid-19 case the hospital should assume 15 others also have it, and report it as 16 cases. So if you want to know the true number, whatever some authority puts out, divide it by 16 and you’ll be real close to the truth. Here’s a clue: A hospital isn’t overrun if they’re laying their help off; as many are doing!
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