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

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St.Baltimore

2021-05-28

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the United States. To date, 32,820,112 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 585,182 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 578,471 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 9,531 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 10,032 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 6,266 infections in Cecil County, or 6,112 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 137 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Cecil County, below the 210 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 May 26, 2021.

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

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