By Mario Koran
About 17 patients are airlifted out of Imperial county every day, as the virus takes a devastating toll on Latino residents
In southern California’s Imperial county, the chuff-chuff of spinning helicopter blades has become a familiar noise.
It’s the sound of coronavirus patients being airlifted out – 15 to 17 a day, on average. This remote region along the US-Mexico border is under siege from Covid-19, and hospitals are stretched to the brink.
Imperial county, population 181,000, is experiencing California’s worst outbreak, according to several public health metrics.
Source: ‘This is a war’: the coronavirus disaster in California’s hardest-hit – and poorest – county
Category: California, Coronavirus outbreak, Poverty, US news, Farming
