Prayers flooded Facebook earlier this month after word spread that a beloved local doctor was hospitalized in San Antonio with COVID-19.
But on Dec. 19, Dr. Anand Mehendale succumbed to the coronavirus, leaving behind many former students, colleagues, friends, family and patients â some of whose lives heâd saved over the years.Â
âDoc was many things to many people,â said Jo Carol Smith, who got to know Mehendale while attending an end-of-life symposium. âHe was gifted with intelligence, warmth, compassion and wit. He did so much for the community and cared deeply for those he served.â
Mehendale obtained his medical license in 1982 and was board certified in neurology and addiction medicine. He worked for Peterson Health and in private practice.Â
FDA approves Moderna vaccine, clearing way for Kerrville to receive it in coming days
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Dec. 19, 2020 10:00 am ET
Five days after Covid-19 vaccines started rolling out across the U.S., rural hospital executives like Cory Edmondson are still waiting, and hoping, that they will receive some doses soon.
“How do you tell your staff, your nurses, your doctors, ‘Hey, we’re not going to get the vaccine [yet]?’” said Mr. Edmondson, chief executive of Peterson Health in Kerrville, a town of about 24,000 in the Texas Hill Country. “They’re going to feel like ‘Whoa, we’re not as important or valuable, just because we’re in rural Texas.’”
The push to swiftly immunize most of the American population against the coronavirus is already one of the most ambitious public-health efforts the nation has ever undertaken. Reaching rural communities and small towns that are grappling with some of the highest infection rates and often have weaker health-care infrastructure is among the most formidable challenges, according to health experts.