I guess it's an indication that the rate is so low now…. and yeah they're mixing apples and oranges (deaths & cases)
>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/574680-rural-americans-now-dying-of-covid-19-at-twice-the-rate-of-people-in-urban
As of mid-September, metropolitan areas were seeing a seven-day average death rate of 0.41 while rural communities had an average death rate of 0.85.
… study noted that the seven-day moving average for cases in urban and rural areas were largely the same until August. Currently the seven-day moving average in rural areas is 66.8 confirmed * cases per 100,000 while in urban areas it is around 43.3 cases per 100,000.