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These Are the Counties in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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There have been 88,027,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.
In the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn metropolitan area, located in Michigan, a total of 1,145,602 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 26,536 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 26,906 cases per 100,000 people.
Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Detroit-Warren-Dearborn , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.
The broader Detroit metro area comprises six counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Macomb County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 254,838 confirmed infections in Macomb County, or 29,335 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Macomb County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Detroit 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 470 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Macomb County, compared to 415 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Detroit-Warren-Dearborn metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of July 16, 2022.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | Macomb County, MI | 29,335 | 254,838 | 470 | 4,081 |
2 | St. Clair County, MI | 27,362 | 43,661 | 530 | 845 |
3 | Livingston County, MI | 26,746 | 50,411 | 250 | 471 |
4 | Oakland County, MI | 26,117 | 326,681 | 318 | 3,972 |
5 | Wayne County, MI | 25,468 | 448,588 | 462 | 8,143 |
6 | Lapeer County, MI | 24,289 | 21,423 | 482 | 425 |
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