As holidaymakers arrive, what does COVID-19 mean for rural health services?
- Written by Timothy Baker, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine, Deakin University
At the start of the pandemic, health services in regional cities and small towns braced for a tsunami of cases. Many worried the patient transport system between hospitals would fail, and each hospital would be left to fend for itself. Small hospitals planned makeshift intensive care departments with improvised long-term ventilators. And...





