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These Are The 20 Counties Where The Most People Have Died Of COVID-19

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Nov 14, 7:18AM EST

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The spread of COVID-19 in the United States has become virtually out of control. There were 181,191 new confirmed cases yesterday, according to The New York Times. Two weeks ago, the figures most days were half of that. A total of 1,389 people died, also a tremendous spike. The national total for confirmed cases has reached 10,818,600. Fatal cases have reached 244,200.

A very large number of fatal cases are concentrated in 20 counties, even though the rapid spread is currently in rural states like North Dakota.

The fatal case count among the large 20 counties with the highest numbers is dominated by the area in and around New York City. Four of these counties are among the five that make up New York City proper. The city has posted a total of 24,108 primarily because it was ravaged by the disease in late March, well into April. Deaths have slowed very considerably since then.

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The two counties with the highest fatal case counts are Kings County which is the same as the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It has posted 7,443 deaths. Queens County in the city has had 7,319 deaths, also among the top 20 counties by that measure. Bronx County has posted 5,014 deaths. New York County, which covers the same area as Manhattan has had 3,200.

The areas adjacent to New York City have also been hit particularly hard. Middlesex County in New Jersey has had 2,341 deaths. Nassau County just to the east of New York on Long Island has had 2,226. Essex County in New Jersey has had 2,162 deaths. Bergen County, also in New Jersey has had 2,078 deaths. And, Westchester County, to the north, has had 1,482 deaths.

The county with the third-largest death toll is the largest in the nation by population–Los Angeles County. It has had 7,221 deaths. Its population of 10,105,518 makes it almost twice the size of any other county, by that measure. Cook County, the second largest in the nation with a population of 5,180,493. It includes the City of Chicago. Its fatal cases of 5,889 deaths puts it in the top 20. Harris County, Texas, home to Houston, is the third-largest county in the U.S. with a population of 4,698,619. Its fatal case count is 2,877.

Top 20 Counties By Fatal Cases (total deaths, county name)

7,443 deaths

Kings

7,319 deaths

Queens

7,221 deaths

Los Angeles

5,889 deaths

Cook

5,014 deaths

Bronx

3,759 deaths

Maricopa

3,701 deaths

Miami-Dade

3,200 deaths

New York

3,108 deaths

Wayne

2,877 deaths

Harris

2,341 deaths

Middlesex

2,226 deaths

Nassau

2,162 deaths

Essex

2,078 deaths

Bergen

2,023 deaths

Suffolk

1,994 deaths

Hidalgo

1,904 deaths

Philadelphia

1,619 deaths

Palm Beach

1,593 deaths

Clark

1,570 deaths

Broward

1,540 deaths

Hudson

1,525 deaths

Hartford

1,520 deaths

Orange

1,482 deaths

Westchester

1,460

Middlesex

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.