‘Being From A Small Town, You Think It’s Not Going To Touch Us’: Rural America Unprepared For Fast-Spreading Virus

Parts of rural America aren’t seeing the booms like in New York, D.C., and other urban areas, but cases in those parts of the country are now speeding up. Yet, more remote areas also tend to be the places that are already struggling in terms of what their health systems can bear.

Click here to see maps from the New York Times on the spread of COVID-19 in rural America.