Drs. Chad and Kelsey Dowell, physicians at South Sunflower County Hospital in Indianola, Miss., have seen the spread of COVID-19 grow precipitously in recent weeks.
Their emotions are stretched thin by the flood of patients they see struggling to breathe, their own inability to respond to the pandemic with the limited resources at their rural hospital, the immense nursing and staffing shortages they face, the resistance members of their community feel to keeping themselves safe during the outbreak and the rising number of deaths from the disease that seem to come as a result.
One of the poorest parts of the U.S. was largely spared the worst of the pandemic, until now
