Harris County spending more than $40 million to cover medical staff shortage - What's Your Point?

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Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo spoke shortly before commissioners gave a unanimous "green light" to the spending of $41 million dollars to hire more than 600 contract nurses.


The added health care personnel will be used to fill critical staffing shortages at multiple Houston area public and private hospitals.
 

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The reinforcements may not be enough - infection rates in our region have quadrupled in the space of a month....and hospitalizations are on track to reach record levels in a matter of days.