Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-24-2020
Abstract
Despite the population’s vulnerability, Southern states have been a stronghold of resistance to federal and international recommendations around COVID-19 protective measures. Most of the states’ delays and refusals to enact “shelter-at-home” policies were tied to economic arguments. As University of Mississippi sociologists who work with rural communities on a range of resilience issues, especially health, we are concerned about the economic and health consequences of returning to business before the region is prepared to protect its residents.
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journal article
Recommended Citation
Cafer, Anne M. and Rosenthal, Meagen, "Coronavirus is spreading through rural South’s high-risk population – reopening economies will make it worse" (2020). CREW News Archive. 1.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/crew_news/1
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This article originally appeared at The Conversation. It has been referenced by The New Zealand Herald, The Conversation, and News.com.au.