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California deploys national guard to hospitals overwhelmed by Covid
The Guardian uK ^ | 04 October 2021 | Maanvi Singh

Posted on 10/05/2021 12:52:25 AM PDT by blueplum

....The national guard has been deployed to hospitals in rural north and central California, where short-staffed hospitals have been overwhelmed with coronavirus patients – exposing stark disparities within the most populous US state.

Although California has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the country, its agricultural heartland in the Central Valley and its sparse, rural north have case rates that are three or four times higher. National guard medical teams have been deployed to several hospitals in the valley’s Bakersfield and Kern counties, and to two hospitals in Shasta county in the far north....

....In Shasta, which has one of the highest coronavirus case rates in the state, hospitals have also been affected by the nearby Fawn fire – which forced thousands, including medical staff, to evacuate their homes last week....

...In the valley, agricultural workers – many of whom lack legal status and access to medical care – were the hardest hit as the extra-infectious Delta variant began to circulate, and Latino and Black residents remain disproportionately affected. In rural regions where the number of physicians per capita was already two and a half times lower than in the Bay Area, this latest surge has pushed the healthcare system to the brink...

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: ca; ccpvirus; centralvalley; covid; nationalguard; newsom
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Newsom campaigned against the recall claiming covid was under control. A week later - Nat'l Guard activated and tents up.

I wonder if he was in Palm Springs over the weekend?

1 posted on 10/05/2021 12:52:25 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

To hospitals that likely don’t have a CoupFlu issue.

But not to ports which do have staffing issues...


2 posted on 10/05/2021 12:59:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: blueplum

Wrecking the health system for the win with Lefty tards.......


3 posted on 10/05/2021 1:04:37 AM PDT by cranked
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To: mewzilla

Yes, because of the “mandate” vaccination.

Commie Crap.


4 posted on 10/05/2021 1:04:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: blueplum
The valley and northern California, which had seen anti-mask protests throughout the pandemic, were the regions with the highest support for a gubernatorial recall campaign that sought to unseat the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, largely over his pandemic business restrictions, vaccine mandates and other public health policies.

Commies punishing their enemies? Saying I told you so. Head shake.

5 posted on 10/05/2021 1:11:40 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: blueplum
This guy?


6 posted on 10/05/2021 1:14:56 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: Texas Fossil

probably more a sign of where our new border guests ended up. Not just the caught and redistributed ones that refused testing, but the ones slipping thru the border and up into the central valley farms while the BP were distracted elsewhere


7 posted on 10/05/2021 1:16:53 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Texas Fossil

>>Commies punishing their enemies?

Yea, I am sure the government made them not wear masks and don’t them not to get the vaccine....


8 posted on 10/05/2021 1:17:11 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: blueplum
" agricultural workers – many of whom lack legal status and access to medical care – were the hardest hit" --- Someone should tell Fauci. He thinks illegals are immune and not spreading it.
9 posted on 10/05/2021 1:17:31 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Veggie Todd

Marjoe Gortner as “Jody” in “Earthquake!”

Jody : You’ve got to forget about the way it used to be. Your brother could be dead! Nobody left but me to take care of you.

Rosa : Well, I have another brother in San Francisco... and he’s in the Mafia. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071455/characters/nm0331374


10 posted on 10/05/2021 1:19:37 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Veggie Todd

that guy, is over at 29 stumps. Palm Springs has a decided swish to it


11 posted on 10/05/2021 1:21:12 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

This is sll propaganda bs.


12 posted on 10/05/2021 1:34:27 AM PDT by antceecee
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All propaganda .. well timed for next election season.


13 posted on 10/05/2021 1:35:35 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: PghBaldy
Pamela Ewing. Oh, yeah! But Walter Matthau was my favorite guy.


14 posted on 10/05/2021 1:35:51 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: blueplum

Agriculture workers = code for illlegals


15 posted on 10/05/2021 1:42:35 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: qwerty1234

Are you serious? Masks don’t work…anyone taking basic high school physiology would know this and the vax are not proven = tested properly!
Naturally THINKING people do not believe your tripe! How about go away or bury yourself in a bunker somewhere once the shat hits the fan about all of this purposefully driven propaganda nonsense! Already falling apart in other countries, soon to do same in USA.


16 posted on 10/05/2021 1:44:24 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: qwerty1234

Since masks are useless to prevent Covid and the vaccine neither prevents the spread or infection with Covid (at best making it less severe), your post is pretty far behind the current science.


17 posted on 10/05/2021 1:44:58 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: blueplum

Yes, I’m sure you are right about that.


18 posted on 10/05/2021 1:57:03 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: qwerty1234

https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/08/california-nurses-shortage/


19 posted on 10/05/2021 1:59:43 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Veggie Todd

Moments after a 9.9 tremor wrecked the bar: “What does a guy gotta do to get a drink around here???”


20 posted on 10/05/2021 2:04:43 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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