Table 2.

Overview of Variables Used in the Analysis Along the Rural/Urban Continuum (N = 3,112).

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
COVID‐19 on May 1, 2020
Total cases	853,181	131,829	50,937	20,736	7,572	20,571	9,582	3,212	1,930	1,097,620
Cases per 100,000	468	188	172	152	128	141	118	152	76	334
Share of total	77.7	12.0	4.6	1.9	0.7	1.8	0.8	0.3	0.2	100
Total deaths	35,319	6,903	1,911	735	221	982	348	74	59	46,552
Deaths per 100,000	19.4	9.8	6.5	5.5	4.4	6.7	4.3	3.5	2.3	14.2
Share of total	75.9	14.8	4.1	1.6	0.5	2.1	0.7	0.2	0.1	100
COVID‐19 on March 1, 2021
Total cases	15,660,027	5,942,529	2,631,632	1,181,938	455,535	1,341,041	737,336	176,037	221,387	28,347,462
Cases per 100,000	8,585	8,471	8,886	8,678	9,038	9163	9,109	8,301	8,703	8,636
Share of total	55.2	21.0	9.3	4.2	1.6	4.7	2.6	0.6	0.8	100.0
Total deaths	273,158	100,698	46,197	22,268	8,045	28,029	14,318	3,696	4,477	500,886
Deaths per 100,000	149.8	143.5	156.0	163.5	159.6	191.5	176.9	174.3	176.0	152.6
Share of total	54.5	20.1	9.2	4.4	1.6	5.6	3.0	0.7	0.9	100.0
Median score by county for other variables
Percent voting for Trump	54.2	59.9	63.2	63.3	63.2	69.6	70.4	70.8	77.0	66.1
Percent employed in high‐risk industries	42.2	45.3	47.2	49.7	49.0	50.4	50.1	48.9	51.2	48.2
Percent in poverty	12.7	16.0	16.7	18.0	18.1	18.6	17.7	18.4	16.0	16.7
Percent non‐Hispanic White	71.7	74.5	78.0	78.1	73.2	77.3	77.9	80.5	83.1	77.3
Percent Hispanic	10.3	9.9	8.0	9.4	12.8	8.8	10.1	4.6	7.1	8.9
Percent of person 25 or older with college degree	28.6	23.6	22.3	20.3	22.4	15.9	18.1	16.2	18.1	20.4