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These Are The Counties In The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area With The Least COVID-19
With slowing vaccination rates and the emergence of the Delta variant, COVID-19 continues to spread through the United States. To date, ...
2021-08-05
With slowing vaccination rates and the emergence of the Delta variant, COVID-19 continues to spread through the United States. To date, 34,811,492 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 608,288 have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world.
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In the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan area, which covers parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, a total of 596,226 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 9,823 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 10,640 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.
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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 6,517 infections in Cecil County, or 6,357 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 155 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Cecil County, below the 218 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 August 3, 2021.
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