These Are The Counties In The Tampa Bay With The Most COVID-19

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St. - Tampa

FLORIDA - As the omicron variant spreads, new daily cases of COVID-19 have hit new highs in the United States. To date, there have been 72,373,400 reported cases of the virus nationwide ? and that number is growing every day.

In the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan area, located in Florida, a total of 663,784 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 21,907 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area ? in line with the national rate of 22,121 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Tampa metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities ? and of them, Hillsborough County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 334,482 infections in Hillsborough County, or 24,257 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Hillsborough County than they are across all of the Tampa area, however. There have been a total of 230 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Hillsborough County, compared to 285 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Jan. 28, 2022.

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

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