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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metropolitan area, located in Florida, a total of 2,460,944 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 40,536 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 26,906 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Miami metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Miami-Dade County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 1,358,002 confirmed infections in Miami-Dade County, or 50,009 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Miami-Dade County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Miami 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 413 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Miami-Dade County, compared to 370 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of July 16, 2022.

These are all the counties in Florida where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).

Rank	Geography	COVID cases per 100,000 people	Total cases	Deaths per 100,000 people	Total deaths
1	Miami-Dade County, FL	50,009	1,358,002	413	11,223
2	Broward County, FL	35,873	684,866	316	6,025
3	Palm Beach County, FL	28,907	418,076	362	5,242

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