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| New coronavirus infections from Oct. 18-24. Daily Yonder map; click the image to enlarge it or click here for the interactive version. |
New coronavirus infections hit a record high in rural counties from Oct. 18-24, for the fifth week in a row. "Rural counties had a record 17,818 new infections on Friday, October 23. Even though metropolitan cases did not hit a record that day, rural America’s high number drove infections to a new nationwide peak of 82,887 infections in a single day," Tim Murphy and Tim Marema report for The Daily Yonder. "Rural counties also hit a one-week record for new infections last week at 91,961. That’s a 13% increase over the previous week and the fifth consecutive record-breaking week for rural counties."
The number of red-zone rural counties dropped slightly last week: 10 counties were removed from the list, but about 70% of rural counties, or 1,348, remain in the red zone. The White House Coronavirus Task Force defines red zones as areas with at least 100 new infections per 100,000 people.
from The Rural Blog https://ift.tt/3jEbPsx Rural counties hit record high for new coronavirus case from Oct. 18-24, the fifth week in a row; metro cases rising too - Entrepreneur Generations
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