Special Report

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

Samuel Stebbins

Published: July 20, 2022 4:00 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 Madison metropolitan area, located in Wisconsin, a total of 184,835 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 28,556 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 Madison than they are nationwide, there are still parts of the metro area where the per capita infection rate is relatively low.

The broader Madison metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents — and of them, Iowa County in Wisconsin has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 5,890 confirmed infections in Iowa County, or 24,936 for every 100,000 people.

Though Iowa County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Madison metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.

There have been a total of 127 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Iowa County, above the 117 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Madison metro area.

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

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