Special Report

This Is the County in the Bowling Green, KY Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 17, 2022 4:00 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 Bowling Green metropolitan area, located in Kentucky, a total of 56,189 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 32,651 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Bowling Green is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Bowling Green metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Warren County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 43,145 confirmed infections in Warren County, or 34,126 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Warren County than they are across all of the Bowling Green area, however. There have been a total of 294 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Warren County, compared to 337 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Bowling Green metro area.

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

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