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A family from NYC has a much higher risk of having COVID-19 due to being from the city where people are on top of each other than a family from the country, and

A family from NYC has a much higher risk of having COVID-19 due to being from the city where people are on top of each other than a family from the country, and the level of this risk is roughly represented by the hospital facilities available to each area. So if people who have a high chance of being sick come to rural America, some of them will actually be sick with COVID-19 weather they know it or not and they will overwhelm the limited facilities there, not to mention possibly infect others and make the situation worse.

seemslegit 7y ago
If they come for the isolation they should isolate themselves in rural America just like they would in the Urban one, re. hospital capacity - if the amount of refugees will be so significant so as to overwhelm rural hospitals by itself then the urban hospitals would already be over capacity so the overall population risk should still be reduced. The rural environment is more protective to the extent it reduces density and contact, its hospital capacity is not inherently reserved for the local population any more than the city hospitals are reserved for the city residents and if other arrangements are in place incoming people should be advised and take it into their calculations. Combined with the general effort to bend the curve the ability to wear- level geographically is a plus not a minus. Frankly I'm surprised there aren't massive medical airtrains being planned to carry patients from overwhelmed hospitals to more coping ones.