Rural counties face fifth straight week of record COVID-19 deaths
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The number of people from rural counties who died from COVID-19-related causes in a one-week period topped 3,000 for the first time last week, marking the fifth consecutive week of a record-setting number of fatalities.
Rural counties broke another record last week for the number of counties in the red zone, defined as 100…