This Is the County in the Killeen-Temple, TX Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Special Report

Published: May 17, 2022 2:15 am

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.

In the Killeen-Temple metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 90,416 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 20,630 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Killeen-Temple has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Killeen metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Lampasas County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 5,551 confirmed infections in Lampasas County, or 26,894 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Lampasas County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Killeen 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 436 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Lampasas County, compared to 274 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Killeen-Temple metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 13, 2022.

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