COVID-19 Reflections: We Are Not OK: Safety Net Primary Care Access in a Non-Expansion State Amid COVID-19.

ABSTRACT

In North Carolina, rural health care-especially the primary care safety net-is a remarkable but under-resourced vital support system. COVID-19 stressed that already precarious system. While the acute COVID-19 crisis may be receding, we are concerned about the long-term effects of the pandemic on both individuals and the rural primary care safety net.