COVID-19: This Is The Most Dangerous County In The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St. Atlanta

2021-04-28

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 31,708,400 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan area, located in Georgia, a total of 587,139 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 10,159 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 9,692 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Atlanta metro area comprises 29 counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Bartow County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 14,464 infections in Bartow County, or 13,959 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Bartow County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Atlanta area, it also has more deaths attributable to the virus per capita than the metro area as a whole. There have been a total of 215 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Bartow County, compared to 148 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of April 26, 2021.

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

This story was originally published by 24/7 Wall St., a news organization that produces real-time business commentary and data-driven reporting for state and local markets across the country.