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Rural America is more vulnerable to COVID-19 than cities are, and it's starting to show

  • Written by David J. Peters, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Iowa State University
imageWorkers wait to enter a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Indiana. The plant had been closed after nearly 900 employees tested positive for the coronavirus.AP Photo/Michael Conroy

Rural areas seemed immune as the coronavirus spread through cities earlier this year. Few rural cases were reported, and attention focused on the surge of i...

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