Rural infections break record for fourth week, top 1 million

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Rural infections break record for fourth week, top 1 million

Thu, 10/22/2020 - 10:27
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COVID-19 spread in rural America at a record-breaking pace again last week, adding 160 counties to the red-zone list and bringing the total number of rural Americans who have tested positive for the coronavirus to more than 1 million. Nearly 70 percent of the nation’s 1,976 rural (nonmetropolitan) counties are now in the red zone, a term used by the White House Coronavirus Task Force to…

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