https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/health/border-hospitals-coronavirus/index.html

June 29, 2020

People with coronavirus are crossing the US-Mexico border for medical care

Chris Van Gorder says he's seeing a telling trend in the hospitals he runs.

Coronavirus patients are showing up in emergency rooms after calling 911 from the US-Mexico border.

"They'll literally come to the border and call an ambulance," says Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps Health, a hospital system in southern California.

The rise in ambulance traffic from the border, which several officials described to CNN, is a symptom of the pandemic's spread in the region – and a sign of the many connections between communities in both countries.

In the past five weeks, more than 500 patients have been transferred to hospitals across the state from California's Imperial County, which has the state's highest per capita rate of coronavirus cases and, according to officials, has seen a large number of patients crossing from Mexico.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/12/californias-free-health-care-for-illegal-immigrant/

June 12, 2019

Calif.'s free health care for illegal immigrants an unsustainable financial burden

The health and welfare of Californians and the undocumented immigrants who flocked to that state are now under direct attack by a state bureaucracy that sees people only as disposable pieces on a political chessboard.

California is on the verge of becoming the first state in the country to give free health care to adult illegal immigrants. Using the state Medi-Cal program, which offers free or low-cost health coverage for those with limited incomes, the state estimates this will provide free health care to what they believe is 100,000 illegal immigrants between the ages of 19 and 25 years old.

https://www.wptv.com/news/national/california-hospitals-struggle-as-coronavirus-cases-explode

Dec 19, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) – California hospitals are battling to find beds to house patients amid fears that the exploding coronavirus infection rate will exhaust resources and health care workers.

As of Friday, nearly 17,000 people were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections more than double the previous peak reached in July and a state model that uses current data to forecast future trends shows the number could reach an unfathomable 75,000 by mid-January.

More than 3,500 confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units.