Many patients in Texas are dying in rural hospitals that are being forced to keep patients they are not equipped to care for. The problem is the state's health care system has been utterly overwhelmed by people suffering from the Delta variant of the coronavirus. One patient, Daniel Wilkinson, survived two tours of duty in Afghanistan but died of gallstones at Bellville Medical Center, deteriorating slowly as his under-equipped doctors looked on helplessly. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES