This Is The County In The Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI Metro Area With The Most COVID-19

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St. Grand Rapids

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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming metropolitan area, located in Michigan, a total of 115,846 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 11,028 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 9,997 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Grand Rapids-Wyoming is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Grand Rapids metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Ottawa County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 32,349 infections in Ottawa County, or 11,389 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Ottawa County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Grand Rapids 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 145 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Ottawa County, compared to 134 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Grand Rapids-Wyoming metro area.

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

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