Kaysie Ellingson
News Director at Texas Tech Public MediaKaysie Ellingson is the former news director for Texas Tech Public Media. She came to Lubbock after living in Anchorage, Alaska, working as a video producer for Alaska Public Media. Prior to working in public media, Kaysie earned her master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California with an emphasis in documentary production.
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In many places in Texas, staffing shortages are forcing already burnt out teachers to cover for sick coworkers. The workload is pushing educators to leave the profession, and forcing school districts to do what they can to retain them.
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Texas Tech Public Media's Kaysie Ellingson looks into why active cases of COVID-19 are no longer reported in the city of Lubbock and the best way to calculate an estimate of that statistic. Then, COVID related hospitalizations are ticking up around the state. Lubbock and Amarillo are two areas seeing high patient loads with over 21 percent of hospitalized patients being COVID patients.
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Senior Reporter Sarah Self-Walbrick gives the latest on city's planned used for American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, today is the last day for rural hospitals to apply for ARPA funds, and on Tuesday Lubbock's new case count of COVID-19 broke records...again.
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Cases of the highly contagious omicron COVID-19 variant are skyrocketing across Texas. While it’s disrupting everything from travel to education, the healthcare industry is facing staffing struggles of its own.
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Part 3 of 3 of the investigative podcast series, "Rural Healthcare: The Other Texas Drought."
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