Special Report

This Is the County in the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 17, 2022 4:30 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 Lexington-Fayette metropolitan area, located in Kentucky, a total of 153,145 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 30,219 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 Lexington-Fayette is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Lexington metro area comprises six counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Scott County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 17,769 confirmed infections in Scott County, or 33,203 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Scott County than they are across all of the Lexington area, however. There have been a total of 204 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Scott County, in line with 204 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Lexington-Fayette metro area.

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

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