New cases put 80 percent of rural counties in the red zone
The presidential election offers plenty of evidence that ignoring the coronavirus won’t make it go away.
Last week, while most of us focused on the race for the White House, the number of Covid-19 infections in rural counties grew by 30 percent and set a record for the number of new cases for the seventh consecutive week. There were 144,043 new infections in rural counties last week, up from…