Baja Border an 'Achilles Heel' for COVID-19 Control Hospital chiefs plead with HHS to start medical checks for thousands who cross from Tijuana daily

SAN DIEGO -- With counts of COVID-19 patients now rising rapidly just north of California's border with Mexico, hospital executives here are asking federal officials to move "immediately" to screen the tens of thousands of people crossing every day from densely populated Tijuana, a city of 2 million people, and other parts of the Baja peninsula.

Chief executives of two major California healthcare systems sent a sent a letter late Tuesday to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. They worry their systems will be overrun, not only from local San Diego cases, but from people who traverse the border unknowingly bringing the virus with them.

The issue is one with obvious national significance because San Diego's San Ysidro/Tijuana border has historically been the busiest land port of entry in the Western Hemisphere. The region is vulnerable as well because Baja California's governor did not issue a shelter-in-place order until March 30, more than 11 days after California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued stay-at-home orders for his state.

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.

And Baja California, which includes the dense cities of Tijuana, Mexicali, Ensenada, and Tecate, have been reporting "a rapidly increasing number of new positive cases per day, with a lack of infrastructure, personal protective equipment (PPE), medication, and workforce to control the spread of the virus," the letter to Azar said.

That was back in April of 2020. What has Gavin Newsom done with this information?

Guess who is flying Positive COVID-19 Patients from Mexico into California to Reignite the Virus (Wave 2)?

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ransomnote to ETCM

So Mexicali medical facility (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 treatment. 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. Gavin Newsom has no objection - in fact, refusing to address this earlier allows him to pretend to be compassionate now, and welcome new Covid-19 patients into the US, to further justify lockdowns and mail-in voting.

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