of urban Americans.
Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts—a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer, and less vaccinated.
While the initial surge of Covid-19 deaths skipped over much of rural America, where of Americans live, nonmetropolitan mortality rates quickly started to outpace those of metropolitan areas as the virus spread nationwide before vaccinations became available, according to data from the .
Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts—a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer, and less vaccinated.
While the initial surge of Covid-19 deaths skipped over much of rural America, where of Americans live, nonmetropolitan mortality rates quickly started to outpace those of metropolitan areas as the virus spread nationwide before vaccinations became available, according to data from the .