Seattle Now: Limited medical care in rural COVID hotspots
Rural counties in Washington have become COVID hotspots.
With fewer doctors, and limited ICU beds, rural hospitals are struggling to find backup when health care workers also get sick.
Health care facilities around King County are running uncomfortably close to capacity. These are the darkest days so far of the pandemic. So far in the city the system seems to be handling the load.
But in more rural counties, where there are fewer people, there are also fewer healthcare workers.
Northwest News Network reporter Anna King is here to tell us about the situation east of the Cascades.
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Patricia Murphy
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Patricia Murphy is an award-winning radio journalist who has covered justice, public health, military and veterans affairs for 20 years. She’s currently the host of KUOW’s daily news podcast, Seattle Now.
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Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He pitched and created THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation. Matt also produced the Seattle music history podcast Let the Kids Dance and the award-winning Ghost Herd. Before moving to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record, KUOW's local news show. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and host for public radio stations in upstate New York and rural Alaska. Matt got his start in media as an intern with StoryCorps and Aljazeera America.
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