Texas was in the midst of a COVID-19 surge, but one area, in particular, was in crisis. Hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley were near or at capacity for long, sweltering weeks in the summer of 2020, and EMS crews were stretched thin. Hidalgo County has been designated as a medically underserved area. We dive deep into why that is and what it means for the people who live there during a pandemic where there aren’t enough resources for anyone…and if you never had enough resources, the results are a crush of COVID cases and deaths.
