An El Paso lawyer helps migrants in Juárez. A student struggles to focus while studying at home. A food pantry worker searches for a familiar face. In this weekly series, Texans from across the state share stories about how they’re navigating life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Edgar Walters
Edgar Walters worked at the Tribune from 2013 to 2020, most recently covering health and human services. Before that, he had a political reporting fellowship with the Berliner Zeitung, a daily newspaper in Berlin. He is a graduate of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked as an editor for The Daily Texan. When not in the newsroom or at the Capitol, he could be found on the volleyball court, standing 6 feet, 7 inches tall.
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More than 13% of Texas nursing homes have at least one resident with coronavirus, officials say
The disclosure comes after The Texas Tribune reported Wednesday that Texas was not sharing comprehensive data on nursing homes, as other states have done.
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Coronavirus: The pandemic through Texans’ eyes
Texas Tribune reporters have interviewed Texans from across the state to learn how they are confronting the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read their stories of struggle and resourcefulness in the first installment of a weekly series.
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Coronavirus is spreading in Texas nursing homes. But the state won’t share the details.
Families and advocates for nursing home residents are calling on Texas officials to release the numbers and names of facilities where coronavirus infection has been reported, as other states have done.
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Lack of rapid coronavirus tests hinders care for respiratory patients, emergency doctors say
Without rapid testing available in hospitals and ambulances, doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists are left to make difficult decisions about patients with other conditions who are struggling to breathe.
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Another small business reeling from COVID-19: the doctor’s office
Primary care doctors are warning that if they have to close, more patients might end up in Texas hospitals at a time when those facilities don’t have the capacity to handle them.
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Texas cancels controversial Medicaid contracts after complaints of subjective scoring
“This decision is necessary to ensure the contract award processes are conducted with integrity, fairness and transparency,” a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission said.
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Denton County asks state for temporary hospital after COVID-19 outbreak at state supported living center
Denton’s mayor and the county judge are pleading with Gov. Greg Abbott for an on-site hospital after six residents of the Denton State Supported Living Center, which has more than 1,800 residents and staff members, tested positive for the virus.
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Rural Texas hospitals should be staffing up to face coronavirus. Many can’t afford to.
Public health precautions undertaken to slow the spread of COVID-19, such as the cancellation of more lucrative elective surgeries, will hit rural hospitals especially hard, administrators say.
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Four COVID-19 cases reported at North Texas facility for people with disabilities
Three of the residents are in their 60s and another is in their 50s, officials said, and all have been hospitalized.
