Nantucket has one hospital, 14 beds, and a shortage of doctors — and wealthy city-dwellers are still flocking to their summer homes on the tiny island to wait out the pandemic
Nantucket, which had
as of Tuesday, is a "medical desert," with only 14 hospital beds, three ventilators, zero intensive care units, and a shortage of doctors, Gary Shaw, the CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital, told The Lily. The island typically brings in more doctors in the summertime to account for the vacation crowds, but that likely won't happen now because hospitals across the country are in need of doctors, Shaw said.
"We have talked to people on both Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard who say a lot of people who have second homes there have been going there," Baker told reporters. "We would prefer they not do that and that they stay on the mainland and don't create additional issues for both of those islands at a point in time when they don't have the level of service capacity in place they typically would have in the summer.
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