COVID-19: How Georgia Compares To Other States In The South

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St. Atlanta

2021-05-12

Efforts to inoculate the U.S. population are well underway. Still, the coronavirus continues to spread and the already staggering public health toll will no doubt continue to rise. To date, 32,334,764 Americans have been infected with COVID-19 — and 575,980 of them have died as a result.

The disease’s spread has not been even across the country, however, and some parts of the U.S. have been hit especially hard, while others have been spared some of the worst effects. In the South, an area comprising 16 states and the District of Columbia, stretching eastward from Oklahoma and Texas to the Atlantic Coast, there have been a total of 12,625,741 confirmed cases — or 10,121 per 100,000 people. For context, the national per capita infection rate stands at 9,883 cases per 100,000 people.

Of the 17 Southern states, including the District of Columbia, Georgia has the seventh most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 1,109,330 known infections in Georgia, or 10,545 for every 100,000 people.

For its population size, Georgia has a proportionate number of COVID-19 infections in the region. Home to about 10,519,500 people, Georgia accounts for 8.4% of the total population in the South. Similarly, known cases in Georgia account for 8.8% of all known cases in the region.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 10, 2021.

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