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NEW YORK, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The coronavirus pandemic walloped the U.S. rural areas last year, and new research has found that, across the small towns and farmlands, COVID-19 killed Black and Hispanic people at considerably higher rates than it did their white neighbors, reported The New York Times on Thursday. "Even at the end of the pandemic's second year, in February 2022, overstretched health systems, poverty, chronic illnesses and lower vaccination rates were forcing nonwhite people to bear the burden of the virus," said the report. Black and Hispanic people in rural areas suffered an exceptionally high toll, dying...
