Americans who live or work in Mexico, mostly near Mexicali, are crossing the border to get back to the USA. The Hospitals north of the border in Calexico and El Centro are airlifting these American patients to hospitals in San Diego and Riverside Counties, as they are overwhelmed. Newsom has nothing to do with this.
Newsom and CA are bad enough that we don’t need to make stuff up that is easily proven false. It just makes conservatives look like misinformed, low information kooks. The Nursing Home part is legit. CA is PAYING extra cash on top of insurance money to BRIBE elder care facilities to take in COVID patients. This even includes “Assisted Living” homes that have no RN’s, doctors, or other skilled medical personnel.
San Diego County, with 3.4 million people, is inextricably tied to Baja through business, culture, and social connections; thousands of families have members living on both sides.
Some 250,000 to 400,000 "expat" citizens now live in Baja California, many of them Medicare beneficiaries, and come back across to visit their families, or to seek healthcare.
"We know for a fact that some individuals, both American and probably non-American citizens, are coming through the border telling people at the border that they have tested positive, and they want to seek healthcare in the United States," Van Gorder said in an interview.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86219
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Now, Mexicali medical facitilty (hospital) has notified border US medical facilities that they are sending Americans and green card holders who choose to live in Mexico (lower cost of living) back to the U.S. for medical treatemtn. Those people CHOOSE to live in Mexico unless they want something from the US.
Mexicali says it was overwhelmed, so they diverted patients to overwhelm US border medical facilities. This is all about spreading Covid-19 passively - dressing it up nicer than rest home Covid-19, and expats are more than willing to help.Newsom is onboard all the way - he has the ability to limit spread.