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Smaller county populations are shrinking as bigger counties鈥� are growing. 2020 census data show that is as true in Colorado as it is nationally. Rural birth rates are dropping, death rates are rising and young people are moving away. Some leave behind multi-generational farming legacies and the land that comes with it. Others are coming back.

Elko, Nevada, is a remote mining and ranching town nearly 300 miles northeast of Reno. In September, the community saw its deadliest month since the pandemic began. As national COVID-19 case numbers were starting to taper off, the impact on rural, conservative communities like Elko was only growing.

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With no local access to prescription drugs, the town of Walden, Colorado has crowdsourced a delivery system, taking advantage of anyone鈥檚 trip to those bigger cities to pick up medications for the rest of the town.

Cases across rural America are at their lowest levels since last July. But a public health official in Montana suspects some sick people just aren't getting tested.

About a third of Americans living in rural areas say they probably or definitely would not get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a recent analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Ben Barto lives in the rural West, a region that voted overwhelmingly for the president during the last election. He had friends who attended Trump's rally before the mob stormed the Capitol. "All of those people that you saw at the Capitol 鈥� they are fed up," he said.

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Nevada recently hosted its annual rural health conference, with a particular focus on infrastructure as COVID-19 continues to ravage rural America.

Democrats once again lost ground in much of the rural West. That includes Montana, where Republicans swept the election for the first time in at least two decades. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., will soon be the lone progressive holding federal office in the state. He spoke about lessons learned from November's election with reporter Nate Hegyi of the Mountain West 暗黑爆料 Bureau.