COVID-19: This Is The Most Dangerous County In The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area

By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St. Columbus

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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton metropolitan area, which covers parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, a total of 460,938 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 9,579 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 9,997 cases per 100,000 people.

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

The broader Boston metro area comprises seven counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Essex County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 97,072 infections in Essex County, or 12,429 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Essex County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Boston 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 304 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Essex County, compared to 239 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Boston-Cambridge-Newton metro area.

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

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