This Is The County In The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area With The Least COVID-19

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St. - Baltimore

2021-09-29

With the ongoing surge of the delta variant, COVID-19 continues to spread through the United States. To date, 42,434,301 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 679,273 have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world.

In the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan area, which covers parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, a total of 665,811 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 10,970 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 12,970 cases per 100,000 people.

The lower than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington is being driven by one area in particular.

The broader Philadelphia metro area comprises 11 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Cecil County in Maryland has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 7,706 infections in Cecil County, or 7,517 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Cecil County have the lowest per capita infection rate in the Philadelphia metro area, it also has a relatively low per capita fatality rate.

There have been a total of 160 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Cecil County, below the 225 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Sept. 27, 2021.

These are all the counties in Maryland where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).

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This story was originally published by 24/7 Wall St., a news organization that produces real-time business commentary and data-driven reporting for state and local markets across the country.