Feb. 20: Areas where the coronavirus outbreak initially was slow to spread. Humboldt County in Northern California was the first rural county to report a case, on Feb. 20, a month after the virus first reached the U.S.
March 2: Almost two weeks later and 3,000 miles away, officials in Grafton County, N.H., announced a positive test for a health care worker who had recently traveled to Italy. At that point, there were just 104 cases nationwide and no other rural counties had reported cases.
March 12: In mid-March, a cluster of cases emerged in Colorado ski country. Vacation destinations were among the earliest in the rural U.S. to record clusters of cases, but that would soon change…
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