https://crosscut.com/2020/03/coronavirus-spreads-rural-washington-prepares-worst
Hospitals across the state are readying for COVID-19 with triage tents, pop-up clinics and a hunt for crucial supplies.
A medical tent is erected outside of the emergency room at Yakima’s Virginia Mason Memorial hospital to triage and screen COVID-19 patients, March 18, 2020. (Emily McCarty/Crosscut)
Although Eastern Washington has had only two deaths so far, rural Washington is preparing for the statewide epidemic of COVID-19 to spread outside of the Seattle area.
Hospitals are creating incident command teams, erecting triage tents outside of hospitals, closing entire tribal centers for disinfecting and popping up dedicated COVID-19 clinics.
After a man in his 80s from Grant County died at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee, the first death from COVID-19 in Eastern Washington, the Grant County Health District warned the public: “We know that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) is in our communities…
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