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SUBMITTER: Kim E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7486744 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Eunji E Shepherd Michael E ME Clinton Joshua D JD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200820 36
Can "urban-centric" local television news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic affect the behavior of rural residents with lived experiences so different from their "local" news coverage? Leveraging quasi-random geographic variation in media markets for 771 matched rural counties, we show that rural residents are more likely to practice social distancing if they live in a media market that is more impacted by COVID-19. Individual-level survey responses from residents of these counties confirm count ...[more]