Counties without coronavirus are mostly rural, poor
As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report a single positive test result for COVID-19 infections, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.
Data compiled by John Hopkins University shows that 1,297 counties have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 out of 3,142 counties nationwide. Of the counties without positive tests, 85% are in rural areas from predominantly white communities in Appalachia and the Great Plains to majority Hispanic and Native American stretches of the American Southwest that generally have less everyday contact between people that can help transmit the virus.
