Big Bend Regional Medical Center, the sole hospital for 12,000 square miles, has just 25 beds, and a makeshift Covid ward where patients are sequestered at the end of a hallway.Credit…Joel Angel Juarez for The New York Times ALPINE, Texas — It is one of the fastest-growing coronavirus hot spots in the nation, but there are no long lines of cars piled up for drive-through testing and no rush of appointments to get swabbed at CVS. That’s because in the rugged, rural expanse of far West Texas, there is no county health department to conduct daily testing, and no CVS store for more than 100 miles. A handful of clinics offer testing to those who are able to make an appointment. Out past the seesawing oil rigs of Midland and Odessa, where real-life roadrunners flit across two-lane roads and desert shrubs freckle the long, beige horizon, the Big Bend […]