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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe coronavirus is starting to hit rural America hard --here's a map of the counties most affected
[link:https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/coronavirus-heres-a-map-of-rural-counties-in-us-most-affected-by-pandemic.html|
Again I can't copy from article, but man is saying they do not have testing eqpt. - competing for the same resources as everyone else.
Seems it's beginning to reach more remote areas...
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)🤯
Iggo
(47,565 posts)Hang in there.
Trump death party, by design & manipulation of resources. 🤯
Doremus
(7,261 posts)to rationalize shutting down quarantines in "unaffected" counties tomorrow.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)modern communication to talk to their big city counterparts for ideas. They simply don't have the resources of big cities, their vulnerability is higher, I wish them well. I get really frustrated with them politically, but they are my country-people and I share more in common with them than with anyone else in the world.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I sure hope they (and ALL) get the resources needed!
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)when they're going to need it, as a lot of rural communities are starting from very close to zero when it comes to places and people who provide healthcare. So many rural hospitals have shut down over the last couple of decades that there are millions of Americans who don't live within 100 miles of adequate heath care (i.e., more than just a clinic).
Just to get these communities up to what most of the rest of the country simply takes for granted will take a Herculean effort and by the time they are hit hard, the healthcare system and most of it's resources will be stretched too thin.
The best hope for smaller, more far flung locales is that they don't get hit until the crisis in the metropolitan areas has abated so that resources can be moved from one place to another where the need is greatest.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I was amazed to read that there are rural areas that do not have ambulance service, I suppose for the very reasons you have stated. 💔
And many are such poor areas, even if that effort could be made timely, they like don't have the resources.
Hust heartbreaking all the way around