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In reply to the discussion: All K-12 schools in Pennsylvania shut down for 2 weeks amid coronavirus outbreak [View all]BumRushDaShow
(146,823 posts)and most complied. The zip code issue often reflects either certain demographics that actually had access to the tests early on (through private physicians) and/or are where many first responders live or those who were considered "essential", like public transit workers, cleaning staff, grocery workers, etc. And of course housing density.
Philly has its zipcode data in a "maps" tab here - https://www.phila.gov/programs/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/testing-and-data/
It's a foregone conclusion that rural areas have the least chance of contracting it just due to how it spreads - with "close contact" with an infected person. But that doesn't mean it can't or won't happen. It won't happen as fast as the dense areas but inevitably it probably will happen until there is a successful vaccine available.
Some of the rural areas over here that have farms and produce processing plants (like the mushroom farms/plants in rrual Chester County), have now been spiking due to the workers contracting it and spreading it among themselves and families, due to how they were being housed and lack of facility spacing/cleaning.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/towns-rural-coronavirus-local-news/612109/
https://www.inquirer.com/news/kennett-square-mushroom-workers-latinos-coronavirus-20200614.html
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