Here's the big secret that has been mostly hidden from the public:
Many ICUs in the state are already half or more full with coronavirus patients from Imperial County and Mexico. As the infection rates were declining wherever you live the local ICU was filling up with patients from Imp County and Mexico.
Coronavirus patients stay in the ICU around a month or two if they live. So these patients aren't going anywhere.
Across the state many ICUs are already half full of these patients. There are ICUs in SD county where every coronavirus patient is from Imperial County or Mexico.
One of the reasons is many hospitals had already contracted with hospitals in Imperial County to assist with their overflow of ICU patients...what they did not count on is all the cases from Mexico and our lack of (i.e. nonexistent) border control during the shutdown.
Some of those hospitals have now managed to put a stop on accepting more patients from these hospitals because they basically won't have any ICU beds left for the local community.
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