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[*] posted on 5-7-2020 at 06:43 PM
Tijuana Covid-19 Rate Increases Significantly


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At least 35 victims of COVID-19 have been buried at Municipal Cemetery No. 13. There are 12 other municipal cemeteries in Tijuana, all of which are full, according to Jesús Salvador García, Tijuana’s director of cemeteries.
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Dispatch #1: Spent time in Tijuana, Mexico, taking a visual look at how the pandemic has robbed people of not just their lives, but of their humanity. Funeral homes are putting bodies into caskets and sealing them - skipping the embalming process. Everything is sprayed down with disinfectant. There is no casket viewing at the memorial service. They often wrap them in plastic wraps to indicate potential COVID-19 hazard.

Cemetery workers wear protective suits and work quickly to reduce the amount of time exposed to the casket. They disinfect after each burial religiously. Families are told not to limit their presence at funerals and stand at least 10 feet back from the burials and apart from each other. The last time they said goodbye to their loved ones - was when the ambulance arrived or when they were dropped off at the hospital.

After death, the corpses makes it way from the hospital to the Municipal Cemetery No. 13 ground very quickly. Tears are reduced to dust by by the dry winds carving out the rocky hillside in the Valle Redondo, about 4 miles south of the border with the United States. As funerals continue on, the grave diggers could be seen in the background continuing to dig holes in anticipation of more burials to come.

I’m deeply appreciative of all the families that spoke to us and allowed us to document their grief. Huge thanks to Margarito Martínez for showing me around and working with me on this story.⠀
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Dispatch #2: Spent time in Tijuana, Mexico, taking a visual look at how the COVID-19 ‪pandemic ‬has robbed people of not just their lives, but of their humanity. Funeral homes receive the bodies from the hospital, proceed to transfer them into caskets, sealing them and often wrapping it in plastic - skipping the whole embalming process. Everything is sprayed down with disinfectant. No real goodbyes.

‪The pandemic ‬has taken away the slow process of honoring the dead. There is a sense of urgency to bury & reduce backlog. Cemetery workers, wearing white protective suits, have to work quickly to avoid prolong exposure to caskets. Their jobs just got a lot harder. They disinfect after each burial religiously. Families are told to stand further away & apart from each other. Tears are quickly reduced to dust by by the dry winds carving out the rocky hillside in the Valle Redondo, about 4 miles south of the border with the United States. I met Fredy Villa Suerte Hernandez who mourned the death of his wife, Laura Moreno Sanchez, 49, who died of COVID-19. “I don’t know if it is my wife or not,” he said. “I did not see the body.” He said authorities did not let him open the casket.

It's worth noting that Municipal Cemetery No. 13 isn't the only cemetery that has ‪pandemic‬ burials. The other 12 municipal cemeteries are full. There are private cemeteries and there are cremation options too. Sometimes families don't want to say if their loved ones have died of ‪COVID19‬. There are also non-COVID19 burials happening. No matter what, dealing with death is a tough situation. I’m deeply appreciative of all the families that spoke to us & allowed us to document their grief. Huge thanks to Margarito Sanchez for showing me around and working with me on this story. 🙏🏼

As funerals continue on, all I remember noticing were the rhythmic sounds of digging in the background as cemetery workers continue to carve out more graves – in anticipation of more burials to come.
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[*] posted on 5-8-2020 at 11:21 AM
Tijuana tops 1,100 COVID-19 cases, May 7 2020


Tijuana tops 1,100 COVID-19 cases
By: Salvador Rivera
Posted: May 7, 2020 / 05:46 PM GMT-0600 / Updated: May 7, 2020 / 05:46 PM GMT-0600
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Border Report) — As of Thursday afternoon, 1,102 COVID-19 cases have been reported in Tijuana, just south of San Diego.

Twenty percent of the people infected by the virus, 222, have died.

According to the state’s Secretary of Health, Alonso Perez, residents between the ages of 30 and 34 are the most affected while those over the age of 65 have a higher chance of dying.

The city of Tijuana has one of the highest number of cases in all of Mexico and ranks second in deaths behind Mexico City, which has 600.

Projections indicate the city of Tijuana will reach its peak in infections by the middle of next week.
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[*] posted on 5-8-2020 at 12:36 PM


222 deaths is a terrible thing, but I question the 20% figure. The actual number of cases must be far higher than the detected, or reported number!



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[*] posted on 5-8-2020 at 02:19 PM


If they reported 222 deaths. It's +622.
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[*] posted on 5-8-2020 at 02:25 PM


I was referring to the number of "un-dead" cases. There is no way that 20% of the covid19 cases are fatal!



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[*] posted on 5-8-2020 at 03:07 PM


Their testing capabilities are a joke.
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[*] posted on 5-8-2020 at 03:39 PM


Grim story today in the NYTimes
Says that Mexico is drastically under reporting the numbers.

Multiply by 3, and you may be close

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[*] posted on 5-8-2020 at 03:53 PM


Sad. We have friends who live in Tijuana. :no:



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[*] posted on 5-8-2020 at 09:38 PM


I hope we can solve this virus soon................thanks for the post.
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[*] posted on 5-9-2020 at 02:00 PM


Sadly, it's not just cemeteries and not only in Mexico. Funeral homes and crematories in NYC have run out of space, trucks are transporting bodies to other areas. Closed caskets, no ceremonies.
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[*] posted on 5-12-2020 at 01:00 PM
Tijuana’s Coronavirus Death Rate Soars After Hospital Outbreaks


https://timesofsandiego.com/tech/2020/05/09/tijuanas-coronav...

Tijuana’s Coronavirus Death Rate Soars After Hospital Outbreaks
MAY 9, 2020

Deaths from the coronavirus in Tijuana have soared and the mortality rate is now twice the national average, after medical staff quickly fell ill as the outbreak rampaged through hospital wards.

A floor at one of the city’s main public hospitals has been left empty because so many workers are sick there are not enough left to care for patients, the hospital director said, despite people with COVID-19 symptoms lining up outside to get in for treatment.

More than 21% of patients who have tested positive for coronavirus in the city do not survive, health ministry data showed as of Thursday. In the rest of Mexico, the figure was just under 10%

While Tijuana’s figure might be due partly to an unduly high proportion of very sick patients being tested for coronavirus, Alberto Reyes Escamilla, director of Tijuana General Hospital, said he thought it was directly linked to the hospital’s personnel shortage.

“It has a lot to do with the fact that we don’t have staff,” he said, adding that about 500 of his 1,200 person pre-pandemic staff are either off sick or furloughed because of vulnerability to the illness.

“We have a floor that could hold 30 more patients, but we can’t use it because I don’t have the personnel,” said Reyes, who heads one of three public hospitals treating coronavirus.

The two other public hospitals in Tijuana that are treating coronavirus patients also had a large number of staff out sick but the agency running those clinics denied that the high death rate was due to staff shortages.

Tijuana is the municipality with the most deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Mexico, 243 so far, according to state and federal health department data.

That is more than across the U.S. border in San Diego, which has a similar population but four times as many confirmed cases.

Outside Tijuana’s three coronavirus hospitals, patients line up for hours to enter, mingling with crowds of family members who wait for days for news about loved ones, according to nurses and a Reuters witness.

Another doctor at Tijuana General, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to media, said the staffing shortage, especially of nurses, was forcing medics to concentrate on treating the most serious cases, risking allowing other COVID-19 patients’ conditions to worsen in the meantime. However, some officials blamed the nature of the virus itself.

The Baja California state health department, which operates the hospital, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In April, state health secretary Alonso Oscar Perez acknowledged in public comments that staffing shortages had prevented the hospital from opening more beds.

The two other coronavirus hospitals in the city are operated by the federal government’s Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).

IMSS Baja California planning coordinator Clemente Martinez told Reuters nearly 14% of doctors at each of the IMSS hospitals in Tijuana had been sent home with coronavirus-related symptoms since the pandemic began, and that other high-risk doctors had been furloughed proactively.

He described the IMSS hospitals as having “a large number of workers who have been infected by the virus” but said Tijuana’s high number of deaths was not caused by a staff shortage. “Does it mean that the disease’s mortality or lethality increases? No. The disease’s lethality is clear,” he said.

Last month, Baja California governor Jaime Bonilla said doctors, many of whom work in both the state and federal system, were “dropping like flies” in Tijuana.

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A medical assistant who works in IMSS Hospital 1 — one of Tijuana’s coronavirus hospitals — described a grim scene.

“The corpses no longer fit in the morgue; they’re putting the bodies in the hallway and covering them with black tarps,” said medical assistant Ramona Vega.

Martinez acknowledged that the morgue, which is built to hold four corpses, did not always have space now.

“In any given moment, the number of deaths from this epidemic is far higher,” he said.

Mexico’s national coronavirus mortality rate is already well above the global average, a result largely attributed to the country having the lowest testing rate in the OECD group of developed nations, and a high incidence of obesity-related diseases.

Alan Rafael Muro, an emergency room doctor who also works with the Mexican Red Cross in Tijuana, said deaths in the city were even higher than registered because some fatal victims with respiratory distress or other coronavirus-related symptoms were not reaching hospital.

“We’re not even counting people who die in their homes,” he said. Reuters witnessed Muro and fellow paramedics respond to multiple 911 calls within a 24-hour period where people they suspected of having COVID-19 were dead when help arrived.

“It’s two p.m. and we’ve already had 10 dead-on-arrival,” he said.

Deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell, who has spearheaded Mexico’s response to the outbreak, told Reuters this week that the country’s coronavirus death toll is higher than the official count which now stands at around 2,900.

IMSS official Martinez said Tijuana was hard-hit by coronavirus earlier than the rest of Mexico because of proximity to the United States, but that mortality figures nationally would likely rise as the virus spreads throughout the interior.

“Statistically that’s what we expect, although I firmly hope it’s not what happens, despite the statistics saying otherwise,” Martinez said.

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[*] posted on 5-12-2020 at 02:05 PM


Tijuana Population 2020. Tijuana's 2020 population is now estimated at 2,140,398. In 1950, the population of Tijuana was 60,336. Tijuana has grown by 201,801 since 2015, which represents a 2.00% annual change.

21,782,000
The current metro area population of Mexico City in 2020 is 21,782,000, a 0.51% increase from 2019. The metro area population of Mexico City in 2019 was 21,672,000, a 0.42% increase from 2018.

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[*] posted on 5-12-2020 at 05:21 PM
SD + TJ mayors join forces


San Diego and Tijuana form binational working group to tackle cross-border coronavirus surge

Border cities form new regional binational working group to track and monitor cross-border coronavirus spread in the region
By WENDY FRY
MAY 12, 20202:37 PM

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SAN DIEGO — As South Bay hospitals struggle to cope with a large number of COVID-19 patients — a surge doctors attribute to legal border-crossings from Tijuana — leaders have formed a binational working group to track cases.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Tijuana Mayor Arturo González Cruz are scheduled to announce Tuesday a new regional binational working group to track and monitor cross-border coronavirus impacts in the region.

City-by-city breakdowns provided by the county show that South Bay communities continue to see the most novel coronavirus activity. National City and Chula Vista had rates of 377 and 269 cases per 100,000 residents, significantly higher than the rate of 151 per 100,000 for all incorporated cities across the region.

Meanwhile, Tijuana has been one of the hardest hit cities in all of Mexico with 1,247 confirmed coronavirus cases and 292 deaths as of Tuesday morning. Health experts believe the true number of cases and deaths are much higher in the border city of about 1.3 million people because of severely limited testing in the region.

In April, the city of San Diego established a regional working group that included more than a dozen local, state and federal agencies to respond to the impact of U.S. citizens crossing into the United States from Mexico to seek medical treatment. The San Diego Region Border Unified Command will now include officials and stakeholders from Baja California.

Projections show Mexico could hit its peak of illnesses related to COVID-19 in the coming weeks and see an increased demand on healthcare systems, potentially leading to an increased demand on hospitals or emergency resources in San Diego County, a spokesperson for the San Diego mayor’s office said.

Faulconer and González said details of the new working group will be discussed at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said the bi-national group will likely include daily data reports and involve a multi-agency response plan that includes the Center for Disease Control, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, police and fire agencies from San Diego and Chula Vista, and the California Department of Public Health.

“San Diego and Tijuana’s longstanding binational relationship has and continues to be a strength even amid one of the largest pandemics we’ve faced in a century,” Faulconer said in a statement. “COVID-19 knows no boundaries, so our border region is closely monitoring the impacts to healthcare systems on both sides of the border.”

His office also plans to announce the donation of 1,000 3D-printed face shields from San Diego to the city of Tijuana for use in public hospitals. Through a connection with FEMA, the working group was able to identify and tap CalDART, an organization that uses general aviation aircraft for disaster airlifts, to donate approximately five ventilators to Tijuana.

“This donation strengthens the ties of collaboration between the sister cities of Tijuana and San Diego, reiterating the solidarity of the families that make up the mega region,” said González in a statement.

Public health officials have linked an increase in coronavirus cases in the San Diego and Imperial Valley region to border proximity. The global pandemic is hitting hard in Baja California and many essential workers, most of them American citizens, cross over daily to work or seek health care.

Temporary cross-border travel restrictions were put into place on March 21, but commerce was allowed to continue. The restrictions did not apply to people with temporary work visas, emergency personnel, students and those traveling for essential business. U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.

Approximately 265,000 U.S. citizens live in northern Baja California, according to the San Diego mayor’s office. Many of them are essential workers who daily cross into the United States to work in hospitals, senior living homes or for public agencies, among other examples.

About 1,000 members of the military live in Baja California, mostly for the affordable housing options, according to state officials. And approximately 2,000 San Diego area employees of restaurants and hotels receive health care in Baja California under a regional, binational health plan.

Hospitals in Tijuana are already at capacity for patients critically ill with COVID-19. Doctors and nurses say many patients with milder symptoms are being turned away to maintain room for the more critical ones.

Ambulances lined the street Monday afternoon outside IMSS-20, a public hospital in Tijuana designated to treat coronavirus patients. A doctor said some patients were waiting outside for hours for initial consultations.

Health-care nonprofit Scripps Health says it is near capacity for COVID-19 patients at its Chula Vista location. Sharp HealthCare has said it’s had to turn away ambulances at its Chula Vista hospital during some of the busiest days last month.

Meanwhile, in Tijuana, doctors struggling under buckling health care systems say the true number of cases and deaths is being vastly under-reported. Emergency responders with Cruz Roja, the city’s ambulance agency, say several Tijuana residents are found dead in their homes every day, dying before help can arrive from coronavirus-like symptoms.

Public health officials have noted the growing outbreak south of the border is having an effect on the amount of illness seen in San Diego and Imperial County, with several leaders, including County Supervisor Kristen Gaspar, reaching out to the federal government for help.

Regular border-crossers have also noted what appears to be longer border wait times and an uptick in crossing in recent weeks.

A Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said the agency has tracked a sustained decrease in cross-border traffic overall since non-essential travel restrictions went into place March 21. However, she said the traffic has been increasing slightly during the last four weeks.

At the San Ysidro Port of Entry, there was an overall 52 percent decrease in vehicle traffic comparing last week to the week of March 2, according to CBP. However, data for the week of April 20 compared to last week shows a 3.8 percent increase in vehicles and a 14.7 percent increase in pedestrian crossings.

The CBP spokesperson said last week that 92 percent to 94 percent of travelers entering the U.S. in vehicles and on foot were U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.

Chris Van Gorder, Scripps’ chief executive officer, confirmed Monday that he, Sharp consulting executive Dan Gross, Gaspar and others met in person with Dr. Alexander Eastman, the senior medical officer for operations at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in San Diego on Saturday.

The visit, Van Gorder said, was made in response to local requests for help and was aimed generally at finding “the ground truth” regarding any connection between COVID-19 and the border, with an additional mandate to “fix any problems.” Though he said he thought the discussion with Eastman was “refreshingly candid,” Van Gorder said he didn’t think it would be “appropriate to share details.”

U.S. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf is scheduled Wednesday to tour the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
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[*] posted on 5-12-2020 at 07:39 PM
Doctors Without Borders treats virus patients in Tijuana as COVID-19 deaths surge


...Televisa Tijuana revealed that local health officials are now reporting that about 7 people are dying every day in Baja, on average.

“We are only treating moderate and mild patients so we don't have capacity for intensive care or ventilators,” said Laura Gómez, Director of Field Operations for Doctors Without Borders. Less than a week ago, Gómez’s team opened the temporary hospital ward at the basketball arena. “We are right now at 40% of our capacity. Actually, today we had our first discharges of patients,” she said to 10News.

They're treating patients who've been transferred from the Tijuana General Hospital which has struggled with its caseload after several staff members became ill. “They have lost a lot of resources not only because they got contaminated by COVID-19 but also because some people [had] to be sent home. They were high-risk because of comorbidities and things like this,” she added.

Last week, 10News reported that local health officials revealed that in the first two weeks May, Baja would have the largest spike in cases and deaths, but authorities have now reportedly extended the critical period by another week.

Gómez told 10News that Doctors Without Borders is trying to recruit more doctors from other parts of the country but it's proving to be a challenge given how widespread the virus has become in Mexico.

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all countries testing is not there, it is impossible to have testing at the get go. It is not like you could have been prepared in advance of something never experienced. So even as tests are perfected there are supplies that have to manufactured.

Next Mexico's and everyone's death numbers are good enough to use as a reverse to find the number of cases if we assume a death rate, well to give us a reasonable guesstimate. I have been doing this in baja sur for over 10 years to get a realistic number from dengue. so lets assume most of the world like Belgium to USA from over 750 per million death rate to USA 250plus per million. It turns out countries that apparently had the TB vaccine are one tenth to 1/40th the death rate as a norm. So Mexico death rate of 30 per million is 1/8th of the usa.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=home...

There are many countries in the world rushing TB vaccination studies into large scale human trials mainly with healthcare workers.

So this would put the cases at about 100 times the reported deaths to 1000 times. I have noticed both bajas have cities with higher than the norm rates, my GUESS do not copy or post this as it is not a fact is they may not have had the TB shots till 40-50 years ago as these states were essentially new to the country . Baja sur became a state in Mexico 1974. LaPaz has a higher death rate vs Mexico. I have been tracking Mexico, LaPaz and Cabo data. Cabo is my guess mainly people from the mainland came to work for higher pay, so has a low death rate in line with all Mexico. Maybe baja did not get the shots because they were so small and new in the 50s would be my best guess to have a high rate like they are. But even with that bajas rates are a fraction of USA and Belgium.

Here is the link to the TB vaccination death variation connection.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-more-stri...

and here is my data chart I have been keeping to watch mexico, lapaz cabo and compare to Spain and Washington state. For a long time the state of Washington had more deaths than the country of Mexico again I believe because of the TB vaccination Mexico does.

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I cannot wait for this nightmare to be OVER.




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[*] posted on 5-25-2020 at 08:27 AM


Quote: Originally posted by BajaBlanca  
I cannot wait for this nightmare to be OVER.


No kidding. Then we can finally get back to the 'mortality reality' currently being being attributed to, or ignored in deference to the Kung Flu.

You know... like the good 'ol days in 2018 when 647,457 Americans died of heart disease, 599,108 of cancer, 169,936 from accidents of all kinds (including roughly 40,000 highway fatalities), 160,20155,672 of Chronic lower respiratory disease, 146,383 of Strokes, 121,404 of Alzheimer's disease, 83,564 of Diabetes, 55,672 of Influenza and pneumonia, 50,633 of Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis and 47,173 of suicide.

The factual numbers listed above are brought to you by our illustrious CDC and can be viewed here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

Why is nobody 'scared chitless' by these numbers? :?:

Does Mexico have a similar database? It would be interesting to see those numbers.

In the meantime, it's comforting to know that the most fearful in our society will never need to buy toilet paper again.




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But comparing those numbers to the US ones are pretty meaningless unless both were presented as per-capita.


The Kung-flu deaths, per-capita, can't be reliably measured until 2021, IF then.

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[*] posted on 6-3-2020 at 01:19 PM
COVID-19 in Tijuana


Just heard on NPR that 80% of the deaths in Tijuana are maquiladora workers.

And........

"Trump administration is pressuring Mexican officials to keep open U.S.-owned factories"

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/stor...




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