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“It does not make sense in a time when we are finally starting to see a lowering [in COVID-19 cases],” said Dr. Emily Briggs of Briggs Family Medicine. “Just because the hospitals aren t overrun with sick people, it is not the time to stop doing what s working.”
In Trauma Service Area P, which includes Comal and Guadalupe counties, the percentage of hospitalizations attributed to COVID-19 has remained below 15% since mid-February.
On March 5, Comal County hospitals reported caring for 21 COVID-19 patients, and 10 remained in intensive care with eight on ventilators. A total of 47 county residents were reportedly hospitalized, though not all were in county hospitals.
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Planned Parenthood employees are scrambling to help find new doctors for thousands of low-income patients after Texas officials and a court order booted the women’s health provider from Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor and disabled.
Experts say there’s a scarcity of places low-income patients can receive non-abortion services like cancer screenings, in part because Texas already has a shortage of doctors who accept Medicaid due to the state’s low payment rates. The coronavirus pandemic has also upended some health providers’ operations and left others with long waiting lists, meaning new patients could face a lengthy delay before they can come in for an appointment. The state’s health commission gave Planned Parenthood s Medicaid patients until Feb. 3 to find new doctors.