Emergency medical workers are already stretched thin in rural western Kansas. Some of them spend hours transferring patients to hospitals in larger cities. As more cases of COVID-19 show up in rural Kansas, it’s making the situation even more complicated. Corinne Boyer of the Kansas News Service reports from Garden City.
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