The top 10 metro areas in the nation for the highest rates of COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks are all college towns.
Atop the list, as compiled Monday by the New York Times, is Ames, Iowa, the home of Iowa State University. No. 10 is Grand Forks, N.D., where the University of North Dakota is located. Two others on the list are Auburn/Opelika, Ala., (Auburn University) and Oxford, Miss. (Ole Miss).
Others include two Georgia college towns: Milledgeville, where Georgia College is located, which is No. 5. It’s followed at No. 6 by Statesboro, the home of Georgia Southern University. The Times lists the metro areas by number of new infections per population.
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