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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