The firsthand pandemic experiences of rural health-care
providers--who were already burdened when COVID-19 hit--raise
questions about the future of public health and health-care
delivery. This volume comprises the COVID-19 pandemic experiences
of Appalachian health-care workers, including frontline providers,
administrators, and educators. The combined narrative reveals how
governmental and corporate policies exacerbated the region's
injustices, stymied response efforts, and increased the death toll.
Beginning with an overview of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its impact
on the body, the essays in the book's first section provide
background material and contextualize the subsequent explosion of
telemedicine, the pandemic's impact on medical education, and its
relationship to systemic racism and related disparities in mental
health treatment. Next, first-person narratives from diverse
perspectives recount the pandemic's layered stresses, including the
scramble for ventilators, masks, and other personal protective
equipment the neighbors, friends, and family members who flouted
public-health mandates, convinced that COVID-19 was a hoax the
added burden the virus leveled on patients whose health was already
compromised by cancer, diabetes, or addiction the acute ways the
pandemic's arrival exacerbated interpersonal and systemic racism
that Black and other health-care workers of color bear not only the
battle against the virus but also the growing suspicion and even
physical abuse from patients convinced that doctors and nurses were
trying to kill them These visceral, personal experiences of how
Appalachian health-care workers responded to the pandemic amid the
nation's deeply polarized political discourse will shape the
historical record of this "unprecedented time" and provide a
glimpse into the future of rural medicine. Contributors: Lucas
Aidukaitis, Clay Anderson, Tammy Bannister, Alli Delp, Lynn
Elliott, Monika Holbein, Laura Hungerford, Nikki King, Brittany
Landore, Jeffrey J. LeBoeuf, Sojourner Nightingale, Beth O'Connor,
Rakesh Patel, Mildred E. Perreault, Melanie B. Richards, Tara
Smith, Kathy Osborne Still, Darla Timbo, Kathy Hsu Wibberly
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