Rural Areas AT Risk For COVID-19
By Alaina Dismukes
Delta Farm Press
Rural areas are at risk for COVID-19.
"We can see as COVID-19 is moving into rural areas, and as time passes, the case fatality rate is increasing and becoming more significant in rural areas, which are currently being hit," said Emma Bergqvist, an intern with AgriSafe during an AgriSafe webinar, part of the weekly COVID-19 Ag Task Force Response.
"Meanwhile, big metro areas that were epicenters for the disease earlier on, such as New York, Detroit, New Orleans, Seattle, etc., have mostly flattened their curve. A lot of other counties in total still have increasing cases, so this means that a lot of our rural areas are continuing to have the disease and haven't had a chance to flatten the curve yet.