Monnat discusses COVID-19 impact on rural communities with KCUR

November 17, 2020

KCUR

Shannon Monnat

Sociology Department

Aging Studies Institute

Center for Policy Research

Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

COVID-19

Rural Issues

State & Local

United States

KCUR

Shannon Monnat

"It’s not just the rural health care infrastructure that becomes overwhelmed when there aren’t enough hospital beds, it’s also the surrounding neighborhoods, the suburbs, the urban hospital infrastructure starts to become overwhelmed as well," says Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion. She was interviewed for the KCUR piece, "Coronavirus Patients From Rural Communities Without Mask Orders Are Crowding Kansas City Hospitals." 11/17/20