COVID-19: This Is The Most Dangerous County In The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metro Area

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St.Baltimore

2021-05-25

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 32,706,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metropolitan area, located in Maryland, a total of 208,925 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 7,480 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 9,997 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Baltimore-Columbia-Towson has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area that appear to be higher risk than others.

The broader Baltimore metro area comprises seven counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, the city of Baltimore has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 52,408 infections in the city of Baltimore, or 8,526 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Baltimore have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Baltimore area, it also has more deaths attributable to the virus per capita than the metro area as a whole. There have been a total of 178 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in the city of Baltimore, compared to 144 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 23, 2021.

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