About a third of rural residents are reluctant get to vaccinated, while about a quarter of metropolitan residents are. Rural residents are more hesitant than their metropolitan counterparts to get a COVID-19 vaccination, even though rural areas have higher rates of infections and deaths from the coronavirus, according to a new […]
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The federal government will rely on pharmacies to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines when they become available to the public. Scores of rural counties don’t have a pharmacy that provides immunization services, a new study says. Nearly a third of rural counties in the United States lack a pharmacy connected to […]
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A list of the rural counties with the highest rates of new cases includes many with prisons and meatpacking plants. Many other counties are those with a high proportion of non-whites. The number of new COVID-19 cases reported each day in rural counties has more than doubled in the last […]
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There’s a perception out there that rural residents are less concerned about the pandemic. A national poll says otherwise. Residents of rural America are taking the COVID-19 pandemic just as seriously as the rest of the nation, a national online poll says. Nearly nine out of 10 rural respondents say […]
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West Virginian Brandon Dennison, founder of Coalfield Development Corp., has received the Heinz Award for Technology, Economy, and Employment. Coalfield Development has combined programs in business development, employment, job training, education and personal development. “No one piece of what we’re doing is anything new,” says Dennison. “But I think the […]
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Immigration, healthcare, and environmental issues include passing references to rural. In the debate over trade policy, candidates use farmers as an example of who is getting harmed. Rural issues emerged in passing in some of Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate. Candidates touched on rural issues in their comments about immigration, […]
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