Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson discusses his latest research brief, An Older Population Increases Estimated COVID-19 Death Rates in Rural America. In this brief, he finds that the older age structure of rural America increases its vulnerability to the coronavirus. Though rural exposure to the virus was limited early in the pandemic, it is now spreading there rapidly.

Read the entire brief online: https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/older-rural-pop-increases-estimated-COVID-death-rates