An interactive map lets you see how prepared your county is for a coronavirus outbreak — from Delta, Michigan's 1 to Kalawao, Hawai'i's 100

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• A new interactive dashboard rates the "preparedness" of every US county for the coronavirus.
• Although the coronavirus hit US cities hard first, it's spreading to more rural regions of the country.
• Rural and urban communities face different challenges in fighting coronavirus outbreaks. However, this dashboard compares them via factors like hospital beds and critical-care staff per capita, poverty, age, and projected outbreak peaks.
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The coronavirus has already wreaked havoc in US cities and their surrounding areas, especially New York, but it's now entering the more rural parts of the country — including Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia.

A new dashboard scores every county in the US based on how prepared they are for when coronavirus cases start to surge.

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