New coronavirus cases and deaths rising in rural counties and falling in metro counties; see county-level data - Entrepreneur Generations

New coronavirus infections by county, Aug. 23-29. Daily Yonder map;
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After three weeks of falling coronavirus infections, new cases in nonmetropolitan counties increased by 9 percent from Aug. 23-29. New metropolitan cases fell by 8% in the same time period.

"The number of deaths also grew by 9% in rural America compared to the previous week, while deaths in metropolitan counties fell by 6%," Tim Murphy and Tim Marema report for The Daily Yonder. "The result is that rural counties now account for a disproportionate share of new cases and deaths in the United States. While rural counties have only 14.0% of the U.S. population, they accounted for 17.3% of new covid-19 cases for the week ending August 29. During the same period, rural counties produced 18.9% of Covid-19 related deaths."

About 75% of the new rural infections and deaths came from so-called red-zone counties that contain about 40% of the rural population. Red-zone counties are those with at least 100 new cases per 100,000 people in a seven-day period, as defined by the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Murphy and Marema report.

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