The Daily Yonder, 12/21/2021
The biggest reason is that rural areas have lower vaccination rates, said Carrie Henning-Smith, deputy director of the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center. People who are not vaccinated are at greater risk of infection, hospitalization, and death from Covid-19, she said.
“I think the higher rates of vaccinations among urban residents have helped us see a decrease in deaths of urban residents, but we haven't had the same rate of vaccination uptake in rural areas, which is why we see this divergence in death,” she said.
The rural vaccination rate is currently about 20% lower than the metropolitan vaccination rate. As of December 9, 46.4% of the total rural population was completely vaccinated, versus 58.8% of people living in metropolitan counties.
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