Special Report

This Is the County in the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: July 20, 2022 3:45 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 Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin metropolitan area, located in South Carolina, a total of 309,207 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 34,984 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 Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin than they are nationwide, some parts of the metro area are safer than others.

The broader Greenville metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents — and of them, Laurens County in South Carolina has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 19,443 confirmed infections in Laurens County, or 29,146 for every 100,000 people.

Though Laurens County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Greenville metro area, its per capita fatality rate is closely in line with the regional average.

There have been a total of 445 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Laurens County, compared to 449 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin metro area.

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

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