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Texas Tech Public Media's News Director Kaysie Ellingson talks with Lubbock's Public Health Director Katherine Wells about how along with a rise in COVID-19 cases, there's also been a rise in sexually transmitted infections. KERA's Bekka Morr speaks to an expert on how to get the most accurate at-home COVID-19 test results.

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.

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.

Senior Reporter Sarah Self-Walbrick gives us an update on how the omicron variant of COVID-19 is affecting Lubbock, and we discuss how COVID-19 continues to put a heavy burden on hospitals.

We hear from Steven Folberg, an Austin rabbi, who discussed how this weekend's hostage situation affected the Texas Jewish communities. We also hear from Michael Lee, the executive director of the Texas Association of Rural Schools, who walks us through the different types of staffing shortages rural schools are facing.