Special Report

This Is the County in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: September 21, 2021 5:30 am

As the delta variant continues to surge, COVID-19 continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 41,395,400 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 231,616 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 8,292 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 12,653 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 57,329 infections in the city of Baltimore, or 9,326 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 210 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in the city of Baltimore, compared to 167 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 Sept. 17, 2021.

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