Special Report

These are the Counties in the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: July 30, 2021 5:15 am

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 34,256,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Harrisburg-Carlisle metropolitan area, located in Pennsylvania, a total of 50,924 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 8,968 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 10,471 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Harrisburg-Carlisle 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 Harrisburg metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Dauphin County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 26,282 infections in Dauphin County, or 9,574 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Dauphin County than they are across all of the Harrisburg area, however. There have been a total of 205 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Dauphin County, in line with 210 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Harrisburg-Carlisle metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of July 28, 2021.

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