How does poverty change the impact of covid?

Using either pre-covid unemployent levels or census poverty data as the signal, America’s poorest counties are significantly more likely to encounter currently infectious people. The amazing USDA Economic Research Service Atlas of Rural and Small Town America has both 2018 poverty rates and 2019 unemployment rates per county.

In the highest poverty counties in America, groups are more than twice as likely to contain an infectious person.

Note: imported from Covid Proxima. Click here to see all the interactive elements.