Source: NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS, 9/18/21


Rural residents are currently dying from Covid-19 at twice the rate of metropolitan residents, according to a Daily Yonder analysis. And the rate of new infections in rural counties is 50 percent higher than the metropolitan rate. This stark divergence between rural and urban areas comes as the summer surge appears to be abating. (See the report on Covid-19 in rural America last week.) Throughout most of the pandemic, the rural death rate has been equal to or slightly higher than the metropolitan death rate. (See graph above.) The parallel tracks began to diverge in early August.

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