Public Health
Poor health choices are killing rural Americans, and COVID-19 makes it worse
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USA TODAY
DENVER – Last month, Glen Mays was having dinner at a rural mountaintop restaurant west of the city when a fellow diner collapsed with a heart attack.
Mays, a college professor, leaped into action, clearing a space and giving the 60-ish woman CPR.
For 35 minutes.