Special Report

This Is the County in the Warner Robins, GA Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: October 27, 2021 3:15 am

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, 45,027,013 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 728,404 have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world.

In the Warner Robins metropolitan area, located in Georgia, a total of 30,402 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 16,006 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 13,763 cases per 100,000 people.

Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are higher in Warner Robins than they are nationwide, some parts of the metro area are safer than others.

The broader Warner Robins metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents — and of them, Pulaski County in Georgia has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 1,509 infections in Pulaski County, or 13,360 for every 100,000 people.

Though Pulaski County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Warner Robins metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.

There have been a total of 522 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Pulaski County, above the 277 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Warner Robins metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 25, 2021.

These are all the counties in Georgia where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).