Rural Covid Death Rates Are Double Those of Metro Areas

Covid-19 mortality rates per 100,000 people, as measured in seven-day moving averages, are accelerating quickly in nonmetropolitan areas compared with metropolitan, or urban, areas.

NOTE: Population based on five-year estimates from the 2018 American Community Survey

CREDIT: Lydia Zuraw/KHN
SOURCE: Rural Policy Research Institute; Johns Hopkins University CSSE COVID-19 Data Embed