TEXAS RURAL HEALTH CONCERNS - Texans living in rural communities are more likely to see COVID-19 as threatening to their personal health than those living in urban and suburban areas. That's according to a new statewide survey from the University of Texas at Tyler. Professor Mark Owens conducted the survey. He says 57 percent of people living in smaller rural communities identify the virus as a major threat compared with 41 percent of those in cities with more than one-million residents.
"This is one of the widest ranges that we saw and there
are a lot of reasons to think why this might be true, right?" Owens said. "In this case the threat on your access to health care, there's a lot of conversations that can be had about telemedicine and where does that fit in? Where there might not be a hospital like we have in Austin or in Tyler."
Nearly 12-hundred people participated in the survey between April 5th and April 12th, after statewide stay-at-home measures took effect.
