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| New coronavirus infections, in ranges by county, July 4-10 Daily Yonder map; click the image to enlarge it or click here for the interactive version |
Driven by outbreaks of the delta variant, new rural coronavirus infections over the week of July 4-10 rose more than 25 percent over the week before, while the number of rural red-zone counties jumped more than 50%. The government defines red zones as those with more than 100 new infections per 100,000 residents in a week, Tim Murphy and Tim Marema report for The Daily Yonder.
Missouri and Arkansas are at the epicenter of the uptick in infections. "Missouri’s statewide rate of new infections grew by about two-thirds last week. The new-infection rate in rural counties was 10% higher than in metropolitan counties. The same was true in Arkansas, where new cases grew by nearly 50% last week," Murphy and Marema report. "Missouri added 18 rural counties to its red-zone list last week. The red zone is defined as having 100 or more new infections per 100,000 residents in a one-week period. Nearly 60% of Missouri’s 81 nonmetropolitan counties are in the red zone. Two thirds of Arkansas’ 26 rural counties were in the red zone last week."
Covid-related deaths, a declining measure of the pandemic, "fell for the sixth consecutive week, dropping by about 13% to 282, the lowest number in more than a year," Murphy and Marema report. "Deaths from Covid-19 lag several weeks behind upticks in infections, so the drop in deaths last week reflects the decline in Covid infections that occurred in late spring and early summer. New Covid-19 infections fell for eight out of nine weeks in May and June."
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