{"id":213352,"date":"2020-11-20T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=213352"},"modified":"2020-11-25T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T13:10:00","slug":"jamestown-nd-story-on-u-k-s-sky-news-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=213352","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown, ND Story on U.K.&#8217;s Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>Jamestown, ND (SkyNews)\u00a0 They used to joke that social distancing would be easy in North Dakota.\u00a0 Being six feet from someone, they said, always felt a bit too close anyway. . .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TK_RUmXCTH0&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;fbclid=IwAR2LBsqhpv3RJEVivuQfj1ZOoQ2UkTW-9Zks_hOoYf2267rs2p8rP0pgOss\">Here&#8217;s a link to the SkyNews video news story<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Katie Ryan-Anderson,\u00a0Marketing Manager at Jamestown Regional Medical Center<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TK_RUmXCTH0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Full text of story from SkyNews:<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown, ND (SkyNews)\u00a0 They used to joke that social distancing would be easy in North Dakota.\u00a0 Being six feet from someone, they said, always felt a bit too close anyway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">\n<div id=\"outbrain_widget_0\" class=\"OUTBRAIN\" data-src=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-19-inside-the-place-with-the-worlds-highest-coronavirus-death-rate-12136578\" data-widget-id=\"AR_6\" data-ob-template=\"bskyb\" data-ob-mark=\"true\" data-browser=\"chrome\" data-os=\"win32\" data-dynload=\"\" data-idx=\"0\">\n<div class=\"ob-widget ob-grid-layout ob-reel-layout AR_6\">\n<div class=\"ob-reel-logo\">For many in the wide open spaces of America&#8217;s prairies, where they pride themselves on their stoicism, the joke has fallen flat.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ob-reel-logo\">North Dakota has, according to the Federation of American Scientists, the highest mortality rate from\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0not just in the US but in the world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The surge in cases over recent weeks is beginning to overwhelm hospitals, many of them in small rural communities like Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>In the emergency room at the city&#8217;s regional medical center, Dr Steve Inglish says, in a small community, his team is often looking after patients who are friends and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve had to take care of people they know and you take it personally when you don&#8217;t have that outcome that you want,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you see their family members in the store it&#8217;s almost hard to look them in the eye. In your heart you believe that you did everything you could but it&#8217;s hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nurse Rachel MacDonald hasn&#8217;t hugged her husband or son for more than a hundred days, she says, to lower the risk of spread.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that brings her to tears though is that she cannot reassure terrified patients by something as simple as holding their hand.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital activated its <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=212673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surge plan<\/a> last week, with just one bed available.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne Tucker was admitted to the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0ward on Friday.\u00a0 Cautious since the start of the pandemic, she is baffled at how she contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For so long it didn&#8217;t touch us, we were following rules,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s scary and the death rate is going up. A priest just died just before I came in and that makes it too real for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a sentiment many share. The pandemic they watched from a distance for so long, is now hitting hard in their own communities.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone.<\/p>\n<p>In the Comforts of Home quilting shop, owner Trish Greenwood and cattle rancher Bev Vollmer are discussing the belated decision by Governor Doug Burgun last Friday to issue a mask mandate for North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It stinks,&#8221; says Bev.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to stop living in fear and stop living in the basement,&#8221; adds Trish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t really seen enough evidence yet to convince me I should stay at home and twiddle my thumbs and weep over it,&#8221; said Bev.<\/p>\n<p>She accepted her view was &#8220;harsh, North Dakota harsh&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Three miles away at the Jamestown Regional Medical Centre, they tell a different story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m worried about whether we&#8217;re going to have the room,&#8221; said nurse Rachel MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do we have enough nurses to take care of these patients and do it well? Some days it doesn&#8217;t feel like we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ambulances of Jamestown once went to New York to help out in the pandemic. They are now overwhelmed on the home front.<\/p>\n<p>Rural America is now the frontline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND (SkyNews)\u00a0 They used to joke that social distancing would be easy in North Dakota.\u00a0 Being six feet from someone, they said, always felt a bit too close anyway. . . 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