Thank goodness I live in a middle-of-nowhere farm town in northwestern Illinois.

The Washington Post

“In California, doctors are ­shipping patients as many as 600 miles away because they can’t be cared for locally. In Florida, nurses are pouring in from out of state to reinforce exhausted medical workers. And in Texas, mayors are demanding the right to shut down their cities to avoid overwhelming hospitals.” That’s the opening of our national desk’s story about cracks in the U.S. hospital system, which are widening as more than 70,000 new covid-19 infections and more than 900 deaths were reported Thursday.