A challenging time may lay ahead for rural hospitals amid the pandemic.
People are exposed to a coronavirus through mucus membranes of the eyes, nose and mouth via respiratory droplets.
"They’re going to get saturated," Parker warned."That ability for us is going to go away pretty quickly."Highway 395 is seen near Mammoth Lakes, California.The United States' response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has largely focused on hotspots like New York City, where case counts and deaths have overshadowed clusters elsewhere in the country.
Research by the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program shows that 170 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, and that 2019 was the worst year since then, with 19 rural hospital closures across the country and three in Tennessee alone. The numbers underscore the fact that during the pandemic, thousands of Americans could have to travel dozens of miles for emergency and inpatient care.
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