Forbes April 1, 2020
Rural hospitals and healthcare systems are holding their breath as they watch the Coronavirus (COVID-19) tsunami wash over major American cities and approach their small communities. Places like New York City are currently home to half of all COVID-19 cases in the US and their hospitals are already bursting at the seams with the increase in patients and the lack of personal protective equipment and ventilators. While New York seems like a distant place to many rural Americans, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, estimates that one out of every thousand people who left the New York City area as the crisis gained steam had contracted COVID-19, many of whom came to rural...
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