As deaths near 100,000, the pandemic that first struck cities now strains counties with acres of farmland, cramped meatpacking plants, isolated prisons and few hospital beds.
Kansas National Guard members wait for cars during a lull in people seeking tests at a coronavirus testing site May 20 in Dodge City, Kan.
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Infection has raced through immigrant worker communities, where poverty or immigration status prevent some of the sick from seeking care and language barriers hinder access to information. It has taken hold in counties where residents flout social distancing guidelines or believe the pandemic to be exaggerated, the virus’s lethality a myth spread by President Trump’s political foes and a liberal media.
That tally is likely an undercount, as testing varies widely among facilities and some companies and state officials have refused to release detailed data. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which represents those who handle about 75 percent of the beef and pork processed in the United States, says that at least 10,000 workers have so far contracted the virus — and at least 35 have died.
“If you go to the local Walmart, I would say 10 percent of people are wearing masks, and the restaurants … that are open are packed,” Lim said. And across the country, more than 29,000 inmates have tested positive and 415 have died, according to data gathered by the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news outlet. Lawmakers have urged the release of low-level offenders, and Sen. Cory Booker has said contracting covid-19 behind bars “is tantamount to a death sentence.”
A water tower looms over a neighborhood in Bristow, Okla., March 24. There is little indication that the Trump administration or others have used the tool this way, even as its predictions about places like Dougherty County have come true. Kely Lyda, owner of the Aspen Cafe, stands in front of the cafe May 5 in Stillwater, Okla. “A month ago we practically could not test anyone,” he said. “Finally, a week ago, we started getting testing kits.” The National Guard now comes each day to pick up the samples and drive them five hours to a lab at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. It takes three to four days to get the results.
The mobile morgues became a fixture in New York last month, signaling a dire situation: hospitals that were literally overflowing with dead bodies. As Morgan County’s fatality rate shot up, higher than anywhere else in the state, a similar trailer pulled into town and parked behind the sheriff’s office.
“It’s been a challenge,” he said, “because we don’t have the equipment and resources like the cities do.” And in many more regions, there are no hospitals for hundreds of miles, the result of closures amid crushing financial pressures. Since 2010, 130 rural hospitals have shut their doors, according to an ongoing study from the University of North Carolina.
It’s exactly what Durbin feared, as he read news reports in January of the mysterious but highly contagious virus ravaging Asia and creeping stateside. He soon pulled out his dusty Ebola prep plan and rewrote it to fit this new emerging disease. The county was quick to act, implementing restrictions before the state’s governor mandated them.An OptumServe employee collects a sample from a patient inside the National Guard Armory in La Porte, Ind. on May 6.
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