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“I think we are just in the beginning of, unfortunately, this crisis … I think things are going to get, unfortunately, a little worse,” says San Antonio-based Dr. Mehmood Khan.
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The numbers are especially bleak for rural hospitals, which are usually independently owned and were already vulnerable before the pandemic.
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Kansas hospital spending grew 13% in 2020, at a faster rate than the national average. That could mean higher health insurance premiums.
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A nurse practitioner is returning to his hometown to provide health care as rural hospitals close and it becomes harder to access preventive care.
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The larger facilities in central and southern Kansas are stretched thin. Hospital staff say rural facilities lack resources to help.
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Texas’ Chief State Epidemiologist says nearly 99% of the state population has developed at least some immune response to COVID-19. However, other public health experts caution the virus can be unpredictable.
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The money helps hospitals pay for health care for uninsured people in Texas, which has more residents without coverage than any other state.
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Texas’ healthcare system will see the largest surge in coronavirus patients since the onset of the pandemic, according to the University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
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This wave is hitting as the nursing workforce in Texas is burnt out and shrinking
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Health experts in Kansas and Missouri said hospitals may soon have to institute crisis standards designed for catastrophic public health events.