Special Report

These Are the Counties in the Lansing-East Lansing, MI Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 24, 2022 3:15 am

There have been 82,117,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.

In the Lansing-East Lansing metropolitan area, located in Michigan, a total of 117,380 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 24,628 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 25,100 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Lansing-East Lansing , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Lansing metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Clinton County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 22,236 confirmed infections in Clinton County, or 28,546 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Clinton County than they are across all of the Lansing area, however. There have been a total of 267 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Clinton County, compared to 290 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Lansing-East Lansing metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 20, 2022.

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