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The Daily Yonder has reported, the coronavirus pandemic is now disproportionately hurting rural America, and has been since August. About one in four covid-19 deaths are recorded in rural counties, compared to in March and April, when almost all deaths were in metropolitan areas. "Now, with the national case count and hospitalization rates
approaching a third peak, none of the country’s biggest hotspots are in a large city. Almost all the counties with the largest outbreaks have populations under 50,000, and most have populations under 10,000. Nearly all are in the Midwest or the Mountain West," Lauren Leatherby
reports for
The New York Times. Nursing homes, prisons and jails are significant vectors for spreading the infection in rural counties.
Many rural hospitals are struggling to handle the surge and some are over capacity. "Overwhelmed by the record case numbers, North Dakota
suspended its contact tracing program this week," Leatherby reports. "New Mexico’s governor, also seeing hospital beds fill up in her state, plans to put in effect
new restrictions on restaurants, bars and retail stores.
See the Times story for plenty of maps, charts, and a ranking of the rural counties with the highest coronavirus infection cases and rates.
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