NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Randy Tobler, the CEO of Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Mo., about the impact a surge in COVID-19 cases is having on rural hospitals.
We're going to begin the program today looking at the latest surge in COVID-19 cases happening now across the country. For three days in a row, there were a record number of new reported coronavirus infections. And now in places like Texas and Florida, leaders are reversing some of the restrictions that had been eased not long ago.
TOBLER: I think that actually, we've become even more concerned than the first time. And while we're still in preparedness in the staging phase, we are noticing a lot of complacency. And I don't think it's just anecdotal in our community. MARTIN: So you haven't had in your hospital an overwhelming influx of patients, but - well, like the one that's happening in southwestern Missouri. Like, so what would you do if you did?
MARTIN: On Tuesday, Governor Mike Parson said he doesn't consider himself responsible for the uptick in coronavirus cases in Missouri. But the state has been fully reopened since June 16. I mean, we're talking about leadership more broadly across the country - like, what example leaders are setting in different places, and those are different examples.
MARTIN: Yeah. I just have to ask you, though - you know, 120,000 people in the United States have died...MARTIN: ...Because of this. And I don't - you know, and the evidence is very strong that many of those people didn't have to - should not have died. I mean, it's because - for all kinds of reasons. There's all kinds of reasons.
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