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 ...
Put up a fence and surround Pelosi’s house. Don’t let her out.
Hm?....How many of those cases are in unvaccinated recently arrived illegal aliens?
We still have your types on this site?
You believe “People” magazine and CNN?
Gates is a “doctor” too…
Yes, he was an amusingly attired fellow.
Political posturing and lying media hype
Again, the data does not support the spin
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This story has everything.
COVID out of control
It’s the rural people’s fault
blacks and hispanics hit hardest
You really don’t get it.
Perhaps they should follow the FL model, cases are dropping like a rock nationally and in FL https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases
If they think they are overwhelmed by Covid now wait until the next 125,000 illegals get here and the next and next..........
staffing issues is what the problem is
or it could be both?
a much better link - Calif covid tracker
here’s fresno.
https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#location-fresno
here’s shasta:
https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#location-shasta
you can use the case rate or the death rates to calculate hospitalizations expected
Yes
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