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| Rural county Covid-related deaths in 2020. Daily Yonder map; click the image to enlarge it or click here for the interactive version. |
"Rural counties helped lead the way in making December the pandemic’s deadliest month on record, ending the year with an emphatic reversal of the urban-focused manner in which the pandemic began in the U.S. in early 2020," Tim Murphy and Tim Marema report for The Daily Yonder. "More than 16,000 Covid-related deaths were reported in December in nonmetropolitan (rural) counties, about a fifth of the total 73,578 deaths that occurred in the U.S. last month."
Last year, 51,221 rural Americans died from Covid-related causes, and all but 10 of the 100 counties with the highest cumulative death rates were rural. December was the deadliest month on record, accounting for one-third of all coronavirus deaths in 2020. "In nearly 700 counties, the number of Covid-19 deaths doubled or worse during the month," Murphy and Marema report.
Click here for more data and analysis from the Yonder, including charts and interactive maps with county-level data.
from The Rural Blog https://ift.tt/3hSyhz1 Covid death rate in December nearly double in rural areas compared to biggest cities; see county-level data - Entrepreneur Generations
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