“A Tiny Hospital Struggles to Treat a Burst of Coronavirus Patients” discusses how Margaret Mary Community Hospital in Batesville Indiana has become overburdened by Coronavirus patients. Notably, the hospital only had a maximum capacity of twenty-five patients, to begin with, because it is in a small rural city, so it was overwhelmed by a relatively small number of patients compared to hospitals in larger cities. The article contends that the issue is being exacerbated because Margaret Mary’s Community Hospital is getting an inadequate amount of aid from the federal government because resources are being diverted to larger cities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-rural-hospitals.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage .