Masks from Mexico: On coronavirus front lines, a midnight dash across the border
(WorldNews Mexico)

WASHINGTON - Tom Banning was fielding increasingly anxious pleas from doctors across Texas when he got a call from a golfing buddy with an unusual offer. Banning`s friend, who had connections in the oil and gas business, had 350 cases of surgical masks from a factory in Mexico. He`d managed to get the shipment over the border, navigating drug cartels and border agents demanding payoffs. Did Banning know anyone who could use them? Banning, who heads the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, didn`t have to think twice. `We had physicians tying bandanas around their faces,` he said. `It was like they were fortifying the big urban hospitals and leaving the front-line soldiers to fight without...