Rural America’s Hospitals are Not Prepared to Protect Older Adults From a Surge in COVID-19 Cases
Rural communities with predominantly older adult populations could be especially vulnerable to poor outcomes from COVID-19 due to lacking intensive care unit (ICU) capacity. Our objective is to describe the scope of the problem by summarizing population totals of older adults in rural America and th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2333721420936168 |