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They re not just treating Covid, rural-area doctors are fighting vaccine distrust

They re not just treating Covid, rural-area doctors are fighting vaccine distrust Phil McCausland © Provided by NBC News On Thursday night, Dr. Thomas Huth, vice president of medical affairs for Reid Health in Richmond, Indiana, plans to become the first person to receive a coronavirus vaccine shot at his rural hospital, which will be one of the first to receive the Pfizer vaccine in the country. His decision comes with two goals: to prevent potentially spreading the virus to his elderly patients and to communicate to the surrounding rural communities that the vaccine is safe and available. “We plan to do that on camera in a very public way to help people feel comfortable with the vaccine,” Huth said. “It’s important that as a health care leader in this area, we’re also leading the way on this important initiative.”

Already struggling, the nation s rural hospitals face another challenge: for-profit owners

Already struggling, the nation s rural hospitals face another challenge: for-profit owners Gretchen Morgenson and Vicky Nguyen and Conor Ferguson and Merritt Enright © Provided by NBC News Debbie Crouch Cook knows the peril of having a loved one fall ill when the nearest hospital is over an hour away. A nurse and medical coder, Cook lives outside Jamestown, Tenn., a 3-square-mile town of 2,000 in the northeastern part of the state. Her mom, Lottie, lives nearby and during the summer of 2019, Cook checked in to find her disoriented and acting odd. She called 911 and when the paramedics arrived, Lottie couldn t smile, a sign of stroke.

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