Special Report

This Is the County in the Green Bay, WI Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: July 20, 2022 2:30 am

To date, 88,027,926 Americans are confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 — and over 1 million have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world.

In the Green Bay metropolitan area, located in Wisconsin, a total of 108,383 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 34,115 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 26,906 cases per 100,000 people.

Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are higher in Green Bay than they are nationwide, some parts of the metro area are safer than others.

The broader Green Bay metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents — and of them, Kewaunee County in Wisconsin has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 6,147 confirmed infections in Kewaunee County, or 30,192 for every 100,000 people.

Though Kewaunee County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Green Bay metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.

There have been a total of 295 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Kewaunee County, above the 237 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Green Bay metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of July 17, 2022.

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