COVID-19: This Is The Least Dangerous County In The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St.Baltimore

2021-06-09

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the United States. To date, 33,027,029 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 591,694 have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world.

In the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan area, which covers parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, a total of 584,754 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 9,634 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 10,095 cases per 100,000 people.

Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are closely in line with the national per capita infection rate in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, there are still parts of the metro area where the per capita infection rate is relatively low.

The broader Philadelphia metro area comprises 11 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Cecil County in Maryland has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 6,309 infections in Cecil County, or 6,154 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Cecil County have the lowest per capita infection rate in the Philadelphia metro area, it also has a relatively low per capita fatality rate.

There have been a total of 146 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Cecil County, below the 213 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of June 7, 2021.

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

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