Having torn through major cities in the Northeastern United States and killed thousands of elderly people, the coronavirus pandemic is now bringing misery to rural parts of the nation and young Americans. A Social Explorer analysis of 2014-18 American Community Survey data indicates that the pandemic is also likely to inflict a financial cost as it works its way through counties that have some of highest rates of uninsured young Americans in the country.

Texas, which has one of the highest rates of uninsured people, accounts for more than half of the 62 counties where a majority of 18- to 24-year-olds have no health insurance, including the border counties of Zapata (73.6 percent uninsured young people), Starr (57.5 percent), and Hidalgo (52.9 percent). Texas has 33 counties where a minority of young adults have health insurance; the next lowest state, South Dakota, only had seven counties in a similar fix.

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Author: Frank Bass