The counties where Donald Trump won by the largest margin in the 2016 election are also the places where the coronavirus has spread the quickest in the weeks leading up to the election a Daily Yonder analysis shows. Counties that voted by a landslide (more than a 20-point margin) for […]
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Rural infections were instrumental in pushing the nation to a new peak in COVID cases last week. A spike in rural infections last week pushed the nation to a new peak in COVID-19 cases. Rural counties had a record 17,818 new infections on Friday, October 23. Even though metropolitan cases […]
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Rural areas now account for a disproportionately large share of new infections and deaths. After a three-week reprieve from rising COVID-19 cases, the number of new infections in rural counties increased last week, climbing by 9 percent. During the same period, new cases in metropolitan counties dropped by 8 percent. […]
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Nearly half of the nation’s rural counties saw an uptick in new cases last week. About a third of rural counties are red zones – counties where the rate of new infection surpasses a threshold set by White House advisers. The surge in new COVID-19 cases moved deeper into rural […]
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