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This Is the County in the Terre Haute, IN Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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Following a months long surge driven by the delta variant, new daily cases of COVID-19 are falling once again in the United States. To date, there have been 44,408,600 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.
In the Terre Haute metropolitan area, located in Indiana, a total of 27,085 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 15,903 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 13,574 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Terre Haute is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader Terre Haute metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Vermillion County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 2,527 infections in Vermillion County, or 16,240 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Vermillion County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Terre Haute 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 347 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Vermillion County, compared to 272 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Terre Haute metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 15, 2021.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | Vermillion County, IN | 16,240 | 2,527 | 347 | 54 |
2 | Vigo County, IN | 15,928 | 17,153 | 276 | 297 |
3 | Clay County, IN | 15,814 | 4,154 | 228 | 60 |
4 | Sullivan County, IN | 15,636 | 3,251 | 250 | 52 |
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