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Professor Tom Haines, director of the UNH journalism program, talks with UNH PodCats about COVID-19 and its impact on national, regional and local news outlets.听

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Tom Safford, researcher at the Carsey School, and other researchers resently surveyed 650 Granite State residents and found that four out of five people who made significant changes to their lifestyle by following national and state health official guidelines never watched Fox News. On the contrarty, less thanResea three out of five Fox viewers reported lifestyle adjustments.听听

Research done by Jessica Carson, research assistant professor at the Carsey School, showed that rural counties across the United States with high numbers of seasonal homes are seeing higher rates of COVID-19 than either urban or other rural areas.听

Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey School, recently looked at the impact of age on the potential death rate in each county in the United States. In his study, he听found that more than half of nonmetropolitiain or rural counties would experience significantly higher death rates among those infected than the nation as a whole.听

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Jessica Carson, a research assistant professor of public policy at听Carsey, says that those who do not usually live in rural areas and are traveling there to escape COVID-19, are causing the spread of the virus. She determined that in the nations almost 200 rural counties where seasonal housing accounts for 25% or more of available houses, coronavirus cases were more than twice as high as in other rural counties.听

Michael Leese, assistant professor of history, has received a听听award to work on his second book, which will focus on the role of institutions in constraining economic development in ancient Greece.

According to Jessica Carson, a research assistant professor at Carsey, rural counties that are attractive destination spots- either because they are near ski areas or beach fronts- are drawing visitors despite shelter-in-place orders. While urban areas have suffered most from the coronavirus, Carson said that residents in rural communities are more likely to be susceptible to the worst symptoms because they tend to be older than those who live in urban areas and are more likely to suffer from underlying conditions.