Special Report

This is the County in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA Metro Area with the Most Deaths from COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: June 16, 2021 4:15 am

The ongoing vaccination effort is allowing life in the United States to return to some degree of normalcy after COVID-19 wreaked havoc for well over a year. So far, the virus has claimed 594,496 American lives — more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined.

In the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford metropolitan area, located in Virginia, a total of 222 deaths have been attributed to the virus, equal to 122 fatalities for every 100,000 people. Nationwide, 182 deaths have been attributed to the virus per 100,000 people.

Though deaths attributable to the virus are less common across the metro area than they are nationwide, in some parts of the city the per capita death rate is more in line with the national average.

The broader Blacksburg metro area comprises five counties or county equivalents — and of them, Pulaski County has had the most COVID-19 fatalities per capita. So far, the per capita coronavirus death rate in Pulaski County stands at 181 for every 100,000 people.

Though it has the highest per capita death rate in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford metro area, Pulaski County ranks among the middle 50% of all U.S. counties or county equivalents with at least one COVID-19 fatality by death rate per capita.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of June 14, 2021.

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