Source: WBTV, 9/16/20

Forty minutes to the east of uptown Charlotte, in rural Stanly County, you might think that COVID-19 poses relatively little threat. You’d be wrong. In fact, the death rate from the coronavirus is almost three times higher in Stanly than in the much more densely populated county of Mecklenburg. What’s happening in Stanly County illustrates a broader problem: In North Carolina’s rural counties, people are dying from COVID-19 in greater overall numbers — and at higher rates — than in the state’s urban and suburban counties.

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