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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Candler County Hospital CEO battles COVID-19 For months, Michael Purvis, the chief executive officer of Candler County Hospital battled COVID-19, at the same time the hospital was struggling to handle the crush of COVID patients. (Photo by Hyosub Shin/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
For months, the chief executive officer of Candler County Hospital battled COVID-19 from the confines of his bedroom, with his wife running between her job as a teacher in Metter and his bedside.
On some days, Missy Purvis would arrive from work to find her husband with a raging fever and lying in a pool of sweat, barely cognizant of where he was or what was happening to him.
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Staff at St James parish hospital have struggled to handle the surge of Covid patients – and despite the arrival of vaccines, problems persist
As the nation’s attention shifts to the vaccine rollout, rural hospitals have struggled to handle their communities’ sick patients. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
As the nation’s attention shifts to the vaccine rollout, rural hospitals have struggled to handle their communities’ sick patients. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
LaurenWeberofKaiserHealthNews
Wed 17 Feb 2021 05.00 EST
The “heroes work here” sign in front of St James parish hospital is long gone, along with open intensive care unit beds in the state of Louisiana.
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Older adults leave a vaccination site located inside the Fort Washington Avenue Armory on a bus operated by a senior center in New York. Many older adults and low-income people lack transportation to Covid-19 vaccine sites.(AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Jane Campbell is frustrated.
Campbell, the town commissioner in Davidson, North Carolina, worries that some of her constituents, especially older adults, don’t have a way to get to Covid-19 vaccine sites.
From Davidson, the nearest locations for anyone seeking a shot have been at mass vaccination events in the Charlotte area more than a half hour away, Campbell said. For many older adults who needed transportation, that was too far.
California’s Rural Counties Endure A Deadly Covid Winter Patch 2/6/2021
Kaiser Health News
Covid-19’s fierce winter resurgence in California is notable not only for the explosion in overall cases and deaths in the state’s sprawling urban centers. This latest surge spilled across a far greater geographic footprint, scarring remote corners of the state that went largely unscathed for much of 2020.
In the past two months, covid-related infection and death rates have jumped exponentially in California’s least populated counties.
From March through November, the state’s 25 least populated counties collectively reported 235 covid-related deaths, a per-capita death rate about 60% lower than that of the rest of the state. (California has 58 counties.) From Dec. 1 through Jan. 29, those same rural counties reported 427 covid deaths. That is nearly twice as many deaths in 60 days as in the preceding 250.