Americans Bringing Covid-19 Across the Border

There isn't much evidence that Mexico has Covid-19 under control and health care in California's Imperial County isn't geared to support both that region's extensive medical issues and a pandemic.  It's a very dangerous convergence of inadequate services and a deadly plague.

Mexicali, capital of the Mexican state of Baja California, has the third-highest number of confirmed COVID cases in Mexico, with its main hospitals at four-fifths capacity, state health department data shows.

Only a few miles beyond the border fence, Imperial County, California, is coping with the most COVID hospitalizations per capita in the state - well over twice the rate of the next highest county.

For the past two weeks, Imperial County’s largest hospital has used helicopters to fly some patients to other clinics, including those over 100 miles (160 km) away in San Diego and Palm Springs, because its intensive care unit is full.