SCW NEWSWATCH: "Coronavirus Grips Midwest Rural Areas That Had Been Spared; Officials blame complacency and summer travel for growing Covid-19 infections in nonmetropolitan counties" - WSJ 8.12.20

"... [A] northwestern Ohio [winery] ... [offered] a game called 'Name That Tune' with about 90 ... people. Within days, 71 ... tested positive for Covid-19. ... help[ing] give rural Henry County, with 28,000 residents, the state’s highest rate of Covid-19 cases ... per capita ... in late July. As ... new coronavirus cases ... dropped nationally ... [in] the past week, the virus appears to be taking hold in some corners of Midwestern states that had largely escaped it. ... The new path of the virus suggests ... complacency, shutdown fatigue and the lure of summer are combining to allow the virus to sweep through rural ... [areas] previously ... spared .... In Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois ... Covid-19 ... increase[s] in infection ... [have] been higher in nonmetropolitan counties, compared with those in metro areas in recent weeks . ..."

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