“Rural COVID-19 mortality rates highest in counties with more blacks and hispanics.”

Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and the Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion in the Maxwell School, was quoted in the Newswise story “Rural COVID-19 mortality rates highest in counties with more blacks and hispanics.” Monnat recently completed research on the subject with a team of researchers from the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies. Monnat says the study found that “COVID-19 mortality is not distributed equally across the rural U.S., and the COVID-19 race penalty is not restricted to cities.”