Forbes April 3, 2020
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic rages in the US, rural hospitals are dealing with the same issues that urban hospitals are facing, as well as additional unique issues found only in the rural hospital setting. Like urban hospitals, rural hospitals are severely lacking medical equipment to treat severe COVID-19 patients when they arrive, as well as the personal protective equipment they need to keep their workforce safe.
“At first they said COVID-19 was an airborne thing, so I was provided with one N95 respirator mask.” Says a nurse working in a rural hospital in Central Kentucky, “Now they are saying that it is just droplets so we can wear a really thin paper surgical masks, but I worry that they...