Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
Population Health Research Brief Series
High COVID-19 Mortality Risk in Pennsylvania’s Rural Counties
Raeven Faye Chandler, Shannon M. Monnat, Yue Sun
July 2020
COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania have been concentrated in eastern urban counties this far. However, the 14-day incident rate has recently begun increasing in several rural counties that have high prevalence of several chronic health conditions that increase risk of severe complications and death from COVID-19.