More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19 – more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined.

In the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan area, located in Georgia, a total of 16,430 deaths have been attributed to the virus, equal to 284 fatalities for every 100,000 people. Nationwide, 310 deaths have been attributed to the virus per 100,000 people.

Though deaths attributable to the virus are less common across the metro area than they are nationwide, this is not the case in some parts of the city.

The broader Atlanta metro area comprises 29 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Meriwether County has had the most COVID-19 fatalities per capita. So far, the per capita coronavirus death rate in Meriwether County stands at 696 for every 100,000 people.

With the highest per capita death rate in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro area, Meriwether County ranks among the top 10% of all U.S. counties or county equivalents by COVID-19 death rate per capita.

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

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

Rank	Geography	Deaths per 100,000 people	Total deaths	Confirmed cases per 100,000 people	Total confirmed cases
1	Meriwether County, GA	696	147	22,441	4,738
2	Butts County, GA	682	162	28,863	6,855
3	Spalding County, GA	658	426	26,108	16,897
4	Lamar County, GA	621	115	27,521	5,095
5	Haralson County, GA	615	178	19,412	5,621
6	Pickens County, GA	555	171	28,519	8,793
7	Pike County, GA	542	98	31,595	5,713
8	Jasper County, GA	530	73	23,970	3,304
9	Walton County, GA	483	435	25,495	22,979
10	Heard County, GA	480	56	19,286	2,252
11	Bartow County, GA	435	451	29,553	30,623
12	Newton County, GA	435	463	24,739	26,346
13	Dawson County, GA	423	101	30,661	7,316
14	Carroll County, GA	403	468	21,442	24,877
15	Morgan County, GA	384	70	26,010	4,743
16	Rockdale County, GA	370	329	22,798	20,293
17	Clayton County, GA	358	999	24,654	68,703
18	Coweta County, GA	355	499	25,391	35,679
19	Barrow County, GA	339	261	29,842	22,945
20	Henry County, GA	315	697	28,212	62,435
21	Fayette County, GA	297	331	22,606	25,176
22	Douglas County, GA	291	413	26,535	37,637
23	Paulding County, GA	281	438	26,131	40,723
24	Cherokee County, GA	267	646	27,869	67,418
25	Cobb County, GA	252	1,881	25,627	190,938
26	DeKalb County, GA	240	1,784	22,450	166,842
27	Fulton County, GA	235	2,405	23,709	242,280
28	Gwinnett County, GA	213	1,921	24,967	225,281
29	Forsyth County, GA	187	412	26,826	58,986

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