Rural counties struggling with lack of resources to treat COVID-19 patients

COVID-19 has brought record setting hospitalizations in Sedgwick County, but some rural counties in Kansas have it much worse. In Wilson County, the health department reports nearly 24% of its entire pandemic cases have occurred since Jan. 3. Dr. Jennifer Bacani McKenney, the Wilson county health officer, said her community doesn’t always have the resources it needs, whether that’s ventilators or hospital beds. They’ve tried reaching out to large hospitals to help get patients care. “We will call 30-40-50, there was one point where we called I think we contacted 115 hospitals and there were no beds,” she said. “No beds that were available for our ICU patient that needed to be on a on a ventilator.”
Source: KAKE – News