WVU in the News: Rural COVID patients in ICUs at higher risk of dying than urban counterparts, according to WVU researcher
In a new study, Sunil Sharma, a researcher in the WVU School of Medicine, found that rural COVID patients who end up in an intensive care unit face a greater risk of death than their urban counterparts do. He also discovered that rural patients with COVID-linked acute respiratory distress syndrome are more likely to die than patients with ARDS that’s due to another cause.
The story has been picked up in several news sources listed below: