Louisa County, Iowa, sits across the Mississippi River from Illinois. The county seat is Wapello, population 2,000. There are about 28 people for every square mile of the county, putting it in the 27th percentile of counties nationally for population density. It’s big and open.
It’s the sort of place President Trump seemed to have been referring to Tuesday afternoon when he suggested rural areas might be able to get back to work more quickly than other places. …
Louisa County has more cases of the coronavirus for every 1,000 residents than does New York City. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post