Mexican Covid patients with dual U.S. citizenship, Ducey told President Trump's coronavirus task force during a June 22 governor's conference call, were driving Arizona's spiking numbers by crossing the border and "Seeking the superior healthcare of our system in our border counties."
Collectively, it shows that a significant but unknown percentage of severely ill dual Mexican-American citizens, legal permanent residents, and Mexican visa-holders of various sorts infected inside Mexico, and yes, illegal immigrants, in May, began flooding over the California border to escape besieged Baja State hospitals.
The Covid refugee flow continued into Arizona border hospitals as the Mexico contagion swept eastward through Sonora, Coahuila, and then to Texas as Tamaulipas hospitals broke down in June and into July.
The June 7 Times story "Coronavirus Jumps the Border, Overwhelming Hospitals in California" reported so many sick patients had poured over the border that California was forced to activate the "Extraordinary response" of transporting them to San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Sacramento, in a helicopter airlift and aboard a fleet of ambulances.
The story estimated that approximately half the coronavirus patients in several California border hospitals had come in from Mexico "As California is trying to reopen." Many of these border patients were being shipped to Los Angeles hospitals.
A first stop might be the Trump administration's March 20 emergency border "Closure." The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal quoted hospital administrators begging federal authorities to require temperature-taking at border entry points and quarantines on anyone with virus symptoms.
The absence of hard data that would show the influx's extent - such as the home towns of all Covid patients hospitalized in border regions and Border Patrol hospital transports - leaves border governors and the nation to assume that only spring-breakers and Memorial Day weekend families did all of the coronavirus spreading, while the emergency border closure continues unreformed.
Collectively, it shows that a significant but unknown percentage of severely ill dual Mexican-American citizens, legal permanent residents, and Mexican visa-holders of various sorts infected inside Mexico, and yes, illegal immigrants, in May, began flooding over the California border to escape besieged Baja State hospitals.
The Covid refugee flow continued into Arizona border hospitals as the Mexico contagion swept eastward through Sonora, Coahuila, and then to Texas as Tamaulipas hospitals broke down in June and into July.
The June 7 Times story "Coronavirus Jumps the Border, Overwhelming Hospitals in California" reported so many sick patients had poured over the border that California was forced to activate the "Extraordinary response" of transporting them to San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Sacramento, in a helicopter airlift and aboard a fleet of ambulances.
The story estimated that approximately half the coronavirus patients in several California border hospitals had come in from Mexico "As California is trying to reopen." Many of these border patients were being shipped to Los Angeles hospitals.
A first stop might be the Trump administration's March 20 emergency border "Closure." The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal quoted hospital administrators begging federal authorities to require temperature-taking at border entry points and quarantines on anyone with virus symptoms.
The absence of hard data that would show the influx's extent - such as the home towns of all Covid patients hospitalized in border regions and Border Patrol hospital transports - leaves border governors and the nation to assume that only spring-breakers and Memorial Day weekend families did all of the coronavirus spreading, while the emergency border closure continues unreformed.
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