This Is The County In The Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY Metro Area With The Most COVID-19

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St. Louisville

2021-05-25

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 32,706,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Elizabethtown-Fort Knox metropolitan area, located in Kentucky, a total of 13,167 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 8,744 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 9,997 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Elizabethtown-Fort Knox has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area that appear to be higher risk than others.

The broader Elizabethtown metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Larue County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 1,339 infections in Larue County, or 9,459 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Larue County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Elizabethtown 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 184 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Larue County, compared to 138 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Elizabethtown-Fort Knox metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 23, 2021.

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