Quote of the Day | May 27, 2020

“A lot of these rural hospitals have either been cut back or closed. The extent to which we’ve really hindered the capacity of rural communities and public health in general is starting to show in our incidence rates, but also in our death rates.”

-Randolph Hubach, an Oklahoma State University researcher studying health outcomes, speaking about the state’s lack of health care in rural areas [The New Yorker]

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