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While COVID-19 cases are slightly decreasing across North Texas, the surge since July has put a strain on smaller counties across the region.

The infusions are more available and accessible to Texans than ever before, and new criteria for who can receive antibody treatment have led more doctors to prescribe it.

The lack of available nurses has driven up salaries and created a heated, competitive job market as thousands of positions remain open throughout Texas.

At least five more Texas hospitals have followed Methodist’s lead, and hospitals in New York, Michigan and Kentucky have done the same.

The Texas Nurses Association says registered nurses in the state are facing burnout as they deal with staffing shortages and another wave of COVID-19 patients.

ER doctors wanted to hospitalize the young man to help ease his withdrawal from opioid dependence. But he declined because he couldn't afford it. His mom says no one told him he had financial options.

More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement.

Ramonna Matthews Polk says she's worried what will happen now that her rural town of Bowie doesn't have a local hospital or the emergency room. Bowie is one of several Texas towns being featured as part of an ongoing, year-long investigation into the declining access to healthcare in rural parts of the state.

Texans in rural communities are facing an ongoing crisis as hospitals and medical facilities shutter. An analysis by the American Public Media Research Lab data shows that since 2005, 24 rural hospitals have closed in the state, which is the highest number of closures in the country.

Laredo’s latest COVID-19 bind follows efforts to expand hospital capacity and to slow down rising hospitalizations, but officials have been unable to control the spread of the virus under Gov. Greg Abbott’s orders allowing bars and restaurants to remain open.

The Texas Department of State Health Services is responding to calls for help from more than 70 hospitals around the state. Most are in the Rio Grande…

Hospitals in Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley are struggling to keep up with the constant and growing flow of COVID-19 cases…