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These Are the Counties in the Tallahassee, FL Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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There have been 80,854,800 confrimed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.
In the Tallahassee metropolitan area, located in Florida, a total of 113,866 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 29,957 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 24,714 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Tallahassee is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader Tallahassee metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Wakulla County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 9,969 confirmed infections in Wakulla County, or 31,273 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Wakulla County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Tallahassee 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 392 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Wakulla County, compared to 277 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Tallahassee metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 6, 2022.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | Wakulla County, FL | 31,273 | 9,969 | 392 | 125 |
2 | Leon County, FL | 30,006 | 86,449 | 229 | 660 |
3 | Gadsden County, FL | 29,287 | 13,477 | 448 | 206 |
4 | Jefferson County, FL | 28,153 | 3,971 | 432 | 61 |
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