Rural COVID Patients Likelier to Die After Hospitalization

Tuesday, April 09, 2024

A new Mayo Clinic study finds rural COVID-19 patients were 22% likelier to die after a hospital stay than their urban counterparts and that disparities persisted despite the rollout of coronavirus vaccines.

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... Why it matters: The findings underscore how the U.S. rural population is one of the most medically vulnerable groups, often having limited access to high-quality post-acute, primary, and specialty care, researchers wrote.

The big picture: The study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases looked at more than 9,300 patients hospitalized in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin between March 2020 and July 2022 who were followed until May 2023. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-09 02:53 PM | Reply

The Wide Open Spaces suck to live in.

Great to visit.

Inconvenient and depressing to live there full time.

Proof, the rural suicide rates are Far higher than urban ones.

Most health outcomes are worse too.

Country living is wasteful and destructive to nature too.

Second homes fragmenting National Forests, etc.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-04-09 03:57 PM | Reply

Rural COVID Patients Likelier to Die After Hospitalization

Let them die.

#3 | Posted by censored at 2024-04-09 08:04 PM | Reply

@#3

I didn't watch the video, but I did see the title, "Tea Party Crowd Cheers Letting Uninsured Die."

Sorry, I disagree. I don't wish that on Americans.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-09 08:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Hmmm...when I said "rabid" Trumper, it was a figure of speech.

#5 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-04-09 09:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Sorry, I disagree. I don't wish that on Americans.
#4 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Well then, I guess you would make a terrible Republican.

Good for you. Seriously, I mean that.

#6 | Posted by censored at 2024-04-09 09:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Rural is typically more Republican.

Republicans believe fox and other fake news sites.

Republicans have a lower vaccination rate than Dems.

No surprise here.

#7 | Posted by bat4255 at 2024-04-10 07:11 AM | Reply

We can't fund those hospitals though. That would be Socialism.

#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-04-10 09:24 AM | Reply

#6 ---- off Genocide lover. You make a Perfect Nazi.

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-04-10 09:55 AM | Reply

Rural people have less access to modern medical care than those in/near major metropolitan areas. This problem increases as their income decreases. I have retired friends who live in remote Wyoming far away from even a neighbor but they go twice a year and get their bloodwork/checkups as scheduled.

But you clowns already knew this. Carry on.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-04-10 10:05 AM | Reply

Send more horse paste.

#11 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-04-10 10:15 AM | Reply

Rural people have less access to modern medical care

Thanks capitalism.

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-04-10 10:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"We can't fund those hospitals though. That would be Socialism."

And we can't get anyone in legislation who has the power to help because liberals continue to try to ruin our constitutional republic by treating rural citizens as second class. Just reading the comments above proves my statement beyond any reproach. So, if liberals don't care about them and want them to not be equally represented in our government, socialism wouldn't do anything to help them. Socialism is still run by people in power who decide what is allocated and where. The fact you don't know that is terribly scary coming from people who want to spread socialism.

#13 | Posted by humtake at 2024-04-10 12:25 PM | Reply | Funny: 4

But you clowns already knew this. Carry on.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Because smart people like doctors don't want to live among knuckle dragging bible thumpers and trumpers. You made your communities repellent to intelligence.

#14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-04-10 01:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

And we can't get anyone in legislation who has the power to help because liberals continue to try to ruin our constitutional republic by treating rural citizens as second class.

#13 | Posted by humtake

400k dirt farming nebraskans get as much power in the senate as 40 million educated californians and you whine that life isn't fair for YOU?

How much of an advantage do you NEED exactly?

#15 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-04-10 01:16 PM | Reply

I grew up and lived until my late 30s in big cities. I've lived in the South since 1977. It didn't take me long to find out that a lot of southerners are pretty farking brilliant, regardless of how mushmouthed they are.

Then I moved to central Appalachia for 23 years. My congressional district voted 77 percent for Trump.

I am a hardcore librul, at least. I find the antirural attitude on my side of the aisle horrifying. Comes through definitely in national reporting.

And there's a helluva lot of farmers in California. And a lot of Appalachians in Pennsylvania and New York.

#16 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-04-10 08:46 PM | Reply

I find the antirural attitude on my side of the aisle horrifying.

#16 | Posted by Dbt2

They earned it. No one hates them for growing food. They're hated for being hateful and electing horrible leaders who are leading this country to ruin.

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-04-10 08:50 PM | Reply

#16

Those California farmers elected Qevin McCarthy.

#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-11 01:58 AM | Reply

And we can't get anyone in legislation who has the power to help because

So why didn't the------------- fix this when your party had control over the white house, the house and the senate?

He promised to fix it. He said fixing it would be easy...so easy.

Because blaming libruls for what corporate hospitals are doing is lie that perfectly shoehorns into your political view.

Blaming the libruls for what your party fails to accomplish when THEY HAVE CONTROL OF WASHINGTON is exactly what they brainwashed you into doing. You're an abuse victim who keeps letting your abuser back into the house because they swear they've changed and you end up in the ER with a broken arm...again.

#19 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-04-11 07:32 AM | Reply

electing horrible leaders who are leading this country to ruin.

The GOP elites (McConnell, Graham, Cruz, etc) have conned them into believing they actually care for them by clutching the bible and their guns when in reality they don't give a ---- about them. One only needs to look at what legislation they advance when in office to see it.

The only significant legislation dotard signed was a tax cut for billionaires and corporations that REWARD them for moving jobs overseas.

Health care? No.
Infrastructure? No.
Fixing the border? No.

Trump has turned the GOP into a clownshow. He has them infighting and voting against THEIR OWN LEGISLATION.

They are trained monkeys doing whatever the childish moron tells them to.

So anyone that willingly votes for these --------- deserve any pain they get from them.

#20 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-04-11 07:37 AM | Reply

This was deliberate underfunding of rural hospitals by Biden to kill off Trump supporters - the Dems wanted to stack them like cord wood in red states so Biden's disastrous 600k+ covid deaths would make comparisons to blue states look better.

#21 | Posted by Claudio at 2024-04-11 09:33 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

"We can't fund those hospitals though. That would be Socialism."
And we can't get anyone in legislation who has the power to help because liberals continue to try to ruin our constitutional republic by treating rural citizens as second class. Just reading the comments above proves my statement beyond any reproach. So, if liberals don't care about them and want them to not be equally represented in our government, socialism wouldn't do anything to help them. Socialism is still run by people in power who decide what is allocated and where. The fact you don't know that is terribly scary coming from people who want to spread socialism.

#13 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

Liberals are the only ones funding programs for rural America.

They passed a damn health law that virtually saves rural hospitals...and Republicans refuse to allow it in their states.

STFU

#22 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-04-11 10:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Was the study controlled for vaccination rates? As in, did 22% more rural patients die regardless of vax status? Or were they all just dying more because they weren't vaccinated?

Regardless, rural hospitals are generally pretty horrendous places to receive care, especially the ones that take medicaid patients. This country needs to invest so much more in healthcare than it currently does. I will never understand people who refuse to prioritize this.

#23 | Posted by JOE at 2024-04-11 10:21 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#23 Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said COVID-19 social-distancing restrictions should be eased because "there are more important things than living."
www.snopes.com

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-11 10:24 AM | Reply

"liberals continue to try to ruin our constitutional republic by treating rural citizens as second class."

Seriously? You poor snowflake! Don't you have a second amendment solution to that?

So tell me ... did you lose the right to vote? And are rural citizens 3/5 a person now?

Do they have to drink at separate water fountains?

Sit at the back of buses?

Use the back entrances for "rural citizens" only?

Just because you are treated like a deplorable doesn't mean you aren't a citizen. Just a deplorable citizen.

If you act like deplorables you might just be treated like deplorables.

#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-04-11 10:42 AM | Reply

#21 | POSTED BY CLAUDIO

What mental illness must you have to even think like this?

#26 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-04-11 11:31 AM | Reply

Was the study controlled for vaccination rates? As in, did 22% more rural patients die regardless of vax status? Or were they all just dying more because they weren't vaccinated?

#23 | POSTED BY JOE

Fair questions.

#27 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-04-11 11:32 AM | Reply

Thanks capitalism.

#12 | POSTED BY NIXON

Worst part is that you can't even blame just economics.

The residents voted for it. For years.

Imagine being so enamored with people who think you're worse than dog s^%* on the bottom of their shoe that you'd continually vote to destroy your own health and livelihood.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2024-04-11 01:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Eating horse paste didn't save the deplorables? What gives?

#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-04-11 05:01 PM | Reply

Rural hospitals usually aren't equipped like those in more urban areas. I had a mild stroke late 2020. My local rural hospital isn't equipped to handle strokes so I was transported to a more urban hospital that is.

#30 | Posted by Pirate at 2024-04-11 06:23 PM | Reply

On the whole urban vs rural thing:
I suspect the same discrepancy is seen outside the Untied States, but probably not as extreme.

There is a 20 year life expectancy differential between the worst part of the Red states and the best part of the Blue states.
The GOP is a Death Cult.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-11 06:28 PM | Reply

18. My point exactly, sorta.

#32 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-04-11 06:50 PM | Reply