West Virginia and the coronavirus 1
From today's Wall Street Journal:
“This is a recipe for really bad things to happen.” In West Virginia, hospitals brace for an influx of older and sicker Covid patients, straining already limited rural resources. https://t.co/4Y0vFdlK7P
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 1, 2020
The article’s full title:
Doctors Prepare for Coronavirus Surge in West Virginia, Where Patients Are Older, Sicker
And its subtitle:
Years of hospital closures leave state with fewer resources to slow pandemic
WV's supply requests to the federal government
According to figures just released from the House Oversight Committee, West Virginia is not getting much of what it requested from the federal government. At this point, not all state requests have been released and so it is difficult to assess whether West Virginia is more or less favored than other states. From Politico’s Kyle Cheney:
More from Oversight: Specifics requests by states for equpiment are being unmet in a big way, per documents provided by FEMA. Here's WV, for exmaple pic.twitter.com/L0ri8djsGg
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 2, 2020
Note -- I'll try to provide a link once the state totals are complete.