KEARNEY — Members of the Buffalo County Health Care Coalition have begun meeting to share information, identify needs, direct resources and discuss how to best care for area patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Buffalo County could have approximately 1,000 hospitalized patients in coming weeks and months, based on health care experts who estimate roughly 40 percent of the general population may contract the virus that causes COVID-19 that could be 20,000.

An estimated 5 percent of that total may need hospitalization — that would be about 1,000 people in a county of 50,000.

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