Horowitz: Medical directors in Texas border counties: We’re treating patients from Mexico

conservative review ^ | · July 21, 2020 | Daniel Horowitz

[conservative98]

On Friday, KVEO’s Sydney Hernandez, who has been covering cross-border news for years, reported that “doctors say they are not only treating Rio Grande Valley residents but people who crossed the border seeking medical attention.”

“One of the factors is the border, we in McAllen Medical are receiving many patients from Mexico, they are coming in because their resources over there are also limited so they are coming into our area seeking medical attention and by law we have to provide it,” said Dr. Ivonne Lopez, medical director of McAllen Hospital Group at McAllen Medical Center. “The patients that cross the border say ‘we don’t have hospital space over there, the oxygen is gone, we don’t have medications so we cross the border,’ that’s the situation in the border.”

Hernandez also quotes a Hidalgo County health official attesting to the fact that hospitals in Texas’ sister cities in Mexico are overrun and dysfunctional. This is why we are getting the most vulnerable people and serious cases from Mexico. That is the only logical explanation for why these counties seem to have more deaths per capita than any place in the country, especially with comparable population densities.

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If our government believes it is our responsibility to treat these people in American hospitals, then rather than blaming Americans for spreading the virus and demanding more lockdowns, officials should own up to the source of the most serious cases. Every day, we see liberals lament that America is experiencing a much longer epidemic than Europe. But Europe didn’t have a Mexico on its border, where governments not only failed to fully halt cross-border travel but openly invited people from a country with subpar medical care to enter and seek treatment.

[conservative98]

Rio Grande Valley hospitals also treating Mexican nationals seeking COVID-19 treatment

Map of the Rio Grande Valley

[aquila48]

“they are coming into our area seeking medical attention and by law we have to provide it,” said Dr. Ivonne Lopez, medical director of McAllen Hospital Group at McAllen Medical Center.”

Bookmark under more stupidity on our part.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Is there a law against charging Mexico for the medical bills?

[Spirochete]

“they are coming into our area seeking medical attention and by law we have to provide it,”

Hmmm. Wasn't a wall built there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIipfPNjwD8

"Coming in" pppffth. They're shipping them in.

[BeauBo]

CBP Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan told Breitbart Texas:

“The overwhelming majority of the individuals still crossing are actually U.S. citizens and LPRs (Legal Permanent Residents - Green Card Holders),” the commissioner stated. “About 83 to 85 percent of those who are coming across the southwest border are U.S. citizens and LPRs.”

“Very few Mexican nationals are actually coming across,” Morgan continues. “And, the Mexican nationals are not coming across for COVID-related medical treatment.”

“What we are being told [by CDC and HHS] is that hospital beds that are being filled up along the southwest border hotspots are not Mexican nationals,” he flatly stated. “It’s actually U.S. citizens and LPRs.”

Apparently, it is a lot of folks who spend a lot of time in Mexico (like retirees, or folks with business or family in Mexico), coming back for treatment when they get COVID.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/07/19/exclusive-texas-border-hospitals-filled-with-migrants-is-false-narrative-says-cbp-commissioner/

[kelly4c]

Bkmk

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[metmom]

Which explains the *spike* in TX, no?

[jmacusa]

Mexico and it's people are parasites. We've been putting up with their bullshit for decades. These bastards send their kids to school here, they come all the time for free medical care, they pull billions out of this nations economy every year and send it back to Mexico after they received free education here and every welfare benefit under the sun.

[Lockbox]

Don’t stop at that one county. Look at every Texas county on the boarder. Some have gone from 1 or 2 cases in a month to 40 to 50 this week. Where did they come from?

[sockmonkey]

My town is over 300 miles from McAllen. Our ICU has 14 beds for Covid-19 pts. On Monday, we had half of those beds filled by local pts.

We have received one patient from McAllen. I guess they are sending people from the Rio Grande Valley to any hospital there is a bed.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Thank you for that additional information and context. Still, that leaves 10-15% that aren’t citizens or legal residents coming across for treatment. Yet another reason to get that wall built. As for any illegals needing treatment, stabilize them and then transfer them to a hospital in Mexico as soon as it’s safe to do so. That’s more than generous.

[vladimir998]

Surprise!

[Envisioning]

Mexico has been on media blackout from the MSM since this whole mess started.

[Bratch]

“What we are being told [by CDC and HHS]...

Not sure if those are reliable sources these days.

[Rusty0604]

Thanks for posting this.

[Rusty0604]

In my county, we have had several days of close to 100 and over 100 in one day.

[BeauBo]

“We have received one patient from McAllen. I guess they are sending people from the Rio Grande Valley to any hospital there is a bed.”

I saw some folks on twitter saying they have a regular conveyor belt of helicopter flights, moving COVID patients from hospitals near the border, to the middle of the State. They end up getting double reported/counted twice.

In post 6, I put a quote from the CBP Commisioner (who always seemed solid to me). He said that about 85% of those coming from Mexico for COVID treatment are US citizens or green card holders.

Any idea about the patient in your town?

[Svartalfiar]

Hernandez also quotes a Hidalgo County health official attesting to the fact that hospitals in Texas’ sister cities in Mexico are overrun and dysfunctional. This is why we are getting the most vulnerable people and serious cases from Mexico. That is the only logical explanation for why these counties seem to have more deaths per capita than any place in the country, especially with comparable population densities.

First, if these people are being treated, why report them as US positives/cases? They should fall under Mexico's numbers, not ours.
Secondly, I thought part of the cross-border process involved at least a minimal check to ensure foreigners aren't bringing over any diseases/sicknesses? If these are the "serious cases", that means they're already showing tons of symptoms and shouldn't be allowed in in the first place!