New rural Covid cases up 18% last week; deaths up 70% - Entrepreneur Generations

New coronavirus infections, in ranges by county, Aug. 15-21
Daily Yonder map; click the map to enlarge it or click here for the interactive version.

During the week of Aug. 15-21, nonmetropolitan counties saw 161,326 new coronavirus infections (an 18 percent increase from the week before) and 1,513 deaths, a nearly 70% spike from the previous week. About two-thirds of the new infections and half the deaths came from the South, Tim Murphy and Tim Marema report for The Daily Yonder.

"New infections spread more quickly in rural counties than in metropolitan ones last week, resulting in a rural infection rate that is 25% higher than the metropolitan rate," Murphy and Marema report. "The current rate of Covid-related deaths is more than two times higher in rural counties than metropolitan ones."

Click here for an interactive county-level map, regional analysis and charts from the Yonder.




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