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Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community moved from skepticism to coping with unbearable loss and processing the trauma.
Mifflin has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates among U.S. counties with at least 40,000 people, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University — 591 deaths per 100,000 residents.
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates with 591 per 100,000 residents as of mid-March, compared with 298 deaths nationally.
Connie Houtz didn't think covid would be that bad. She'd seen many people in this rural hamlet in central Pennsylvania get infected yet recover within a few days. She did not get vaccinated because she worried about how a new vaccine, developed in record time, might affect her heart condition.
Mifflin has one of the highest covid death rates among US counties with at least 40,000 people, according to government data.