Tour2ma Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 Yes... it's an NYT article... but it starts with a straightforward presentation of data as long as the US Map is front and center.down and map stays as notable rural America milestones pass. When the map finally scrolls up the article finally appears. Here's one taste... Quote Rural nurses and doctors, scarce in normal times, are already calling out sick and being quarantined. Clinics are scrambling to find couriers who can speed their coronavirus tests to labs hundreds of miles away. The loss of 120 rural hospitals over the past decade has left many towns defenseless, and more hospitals are closing even as the pandemic spreads. Coronavirus illnesses and deaths are still overwhelmingly concentrated in cities and suburbs, and new rural cases have not exploded at the same rate as in some cities. But they are growing fast. This week, the case rate in rural areas was more than double what it was six days earlier. Deaths are being reported in small farming and manufacturing towns that barely had a confirmed case a week ago. Fourteen infections have been reported in the county encompassing Ms. Rhodes’s southern Illinois hometown of Murphysboro, and she recently quarantined with her parents, who are nurses, as a precaution after they got sick. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/08/us/coronavirus-rural-america-cases.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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