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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.

The numbers are especially bleak for rural hospitals, which are usually independently owned and were already vulnerable before the pandemic.

Kansas hospital spending grew 13% in 2020, at a faster rate than the national average. That could mean higher health insurance premiums.

A nurse practitioner is returning to his hometown to provide health care as rural hospitals close and it becomes harder to access preventive care.

The larger facilities in central and southern Kansas are stretched thin. Hospital staff say rural facilities lack resources to help.

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.

The money helps hospitals pay for health care for uninsured people in Texas, which has more residents without coverage than any other state.

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.

This wave is hitting as the nursing workforce in Texas is burnt out and shrinking

Health experts in Kansas and Missouri said hospitals may soon have to institute crisis standards designed for catastrophic public health events.