By the end of the year, rural Kansas counties had actually suffered more deaths proportionally in 2020 than their more densely populated counterparts.
Andrew Marso
Andrew Marso is a freelance reporter for The Beacon. He is an editor at the FPM Journal and previously worked at The Kansas City Star, Kansas News Service and Topeka Capital-Journal.
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