Since late 2020, COVID-19 mortality rates have been higher in rural than urban America, but there has also been substantial within-rural heterogeneity. Using CDC data, Sun, Cheng, and Monnat compare COVID-19 mortality rates across the rural-urban continuum and within rural counties across different types of labor markets and by metropolitan adjacency.
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