This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Dr. Kirk Tucker, chief clinical officer of Adena Health Systems in Chillicothe, Ohio, said a week before Thanksgiving that the health system’s three hospitals in southern Ohio were bombarded with coronavirus patients. But it isn’t just the patients testing positive. The […]
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Region’s Economic Outlook Grim As COVID Aid Programs End
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. With hundreds of thousands across the Ohio Valley struggling to make ends meet, a suite of coronavirus aid packages, including rent and utility relief funding, eviction moratoriums and expanded unemployment benefits, is set to expire at the end of December. The […]
Read MoreReport: 20% of COVID-19 Patients Develop Mental Illness
For rural patients already struggling with access to mental health care, the long term effects of the pandemic could mean even greater barriers in receiving the help they need. As COVID cases rise in rural areas, a new report found that one in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days […]
Read MoreCOVID Has Hit Rural Communities Hard. Now They’re Preparing for What Winter Could Bring.
When city-dwellers conjure rural America, they envision “the farmer and rancher out in western Nebraska or western Kansas,” said Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association. “Those guys pioneered the concept of social isolation; they’ve got social distancing down.” Morgan was speaking at the Rural Assembly Everywhere, a […]
Read MoreRapid Testing Is Less Accurate Than the Government Wants to Admit
Rapid antigen testing is a mess. The federal government pushed it out without a plan, and then spent weeks denying problems with false positives. The promise of antigen tests emerged like a miracle this summer. With repeated use, the theory went, these rapid and cheap coronavirus tests would identify highly […]
Read MoreRural Hospitals Brace For Increased Coronavirus Cases
Most rural hospitals did not have large numbers of COVID-19 patients this spring and summer. The current record-breaking surge in rural areas will likely be different. Most rural hospitals didn’t get inundated with COVID-19 patients during the spring and summer surges of the pandemic. But the accelerating spread of the […]
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