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Hospitals on Both Sides of U.S.-Mexico Border Reach Capacity Amid COVID-19 Surge

HeadlineNov 05, 2020

In Mexico, hospitals in the northern border city of Ciudad Juárez have reached capacity and began wait-listing patients amid a surge of COVID-19 cases. Officials have imposed a nightly curfew and ordered the largely U.S.-owned factories known as maquiladoras to close on weekends. Across the border, overtaxed hospitals in El Paso have been airlifting COVID patients to other cities in Texas.

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