[The Guardian] In the poorest county, in America’s poorest state, a virus hits home: 'Hunger is rampant'

In the poorest county, in America’s poorest state, a virus hits home: 'Hunger is rampant'

In county where every child qualifies for free school meals, a superintendent embarks on a project – driving 6,000 meals a day

On the cracked country roads of Lexington, deep in the Mississippi delta, an empty yellow school bus drives slowly, making life-sustaining drop offs on the way.

Here, in the poorest county, in America’s poorest state, the coronavirus has yet to ravage the jurisdiction with infection. There has been one recorded Covid-19 death in the county, Clinton Cobbins, Lexington’s first African American mayor. But even now the coronavirus still poses a serious threat to life.

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