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Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey School, believes that state and federal responses to the ongoing pandemic should take vulnerable rural populations into considerations. Johnson recently published a brief which found that more than 26% of the non-metropolitan population is over the age of 60. In addition to being of an older age, the study found that听rural Americans have higher incidences of underlying health conditions that may put them at a greater risk of complications from COVID-19.

Jessica Carson, a research assistant professor with the Carsey School, agrees with Johnsons findings and conclusions. She has been using county level data compiled by the New York Times to see if rural counties with high instances of seasonal housing have higher rates of COVID-19 cases than either urban or rural areas in America. Carson found that in the nation's 199 rural counties where seasonal housing accounts for 25% or more of all housing units, the average number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 were more than twice as high as on other rural counties.听