Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Background
1. Rural Medicine Retrospective: An Overview of the Challenges Rural Hospitals Faced Prepandemic
2. Good Hygiene in Bad Times
3. The Perfect Storm, the Perfect Solution?: COVID-19 and Telehealth
4. Bracing Early for a Delayed Impact: How Appalachia’s COVID-19 Timelines Affected Health System Bottom Lines
Part 2. Stories
5. Passover
6. Working in the Hospital in the Early Days of the Pandemic
7. Shadrach, Sparrows, and Me
8. I Am Responsible for the People Who Are Responsible
9. Isolation, Denial, and Appalachia’s Greatest Public Threat
10. The Mask Makers: How Women in Appalachia Were Empowered through Sewing during the COVID-19 Response
11. We Already Knew We Were Mortal: Cancer Patients in the Pandemic
12. Nursing While Black
13. Trust Comes Late
Part 3. Impact
14. The Two-Sided Pandemic: Mental Health and Racism before and during COVID-19
15. COVID-19’s Enduring Impact on Medical Education: An Appalachian Case Study
16. COVID-19 and Type 2 Diabetes: A Seesaw of Reckoning
17. Substance Use Disorder during COVID
18. The Race to Vaccinate
19. Variants, Vaccines, and Vacations
Contributors
Index