RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, issuing body.
Rural Health Research & Policy Centers, issuing body.
Rural Policy Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body.
Publication:
Iowa City, IA : Rural Policy Research Institute, September 2020
Much of the COVID-19 focus has been on major metropolitan areas, but rural areas of the United States are not free of exposure. As of August 26, 2020, there were a total of 5,714,658 cases and 177,095 deaths identified in counties, with 620,119 cases and 14,310 deaths (about 10.8 percent of cases and 8.0 percent of deaths) reported in non-metropolitan counties (data obtained from the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Data Repository). But as many experts have pointed out, the rate of growth in cases is very different depending on location. Further, the stress on the health care delivery system is proportionate--a small number of cases creates stress for low capacity systems just as a large volume of cases creates stress for larger capacity systems.
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