Prognosis
Covid-19’s Blow Is Falling Harder Than Ever on Rural America
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The Covid-19 pandemic is slamming rural America harder than ever before, with record daily cases reported in Montana and South Dakota, putting the focus on small towns with typically limited hospital resources.
On a per-capita basis, the most rural counties have never had it so bad relative to the most urban, government data show.