Despite the ongoing vaccination effort, new daily cases of COVID-19 are beginning to rise once again in parts of the United States. To date, there have been 48,413,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.
In the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin metropolitan area, located in South Carolina, a total of 186,011 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 21,045 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 14,798 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader Greenville metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Pickens County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 28,530 infections in Pickens County, or 23,243 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Pickens County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Greenville 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 401 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Pickens County, compared to 343 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Dec. 3, 2021.
| Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pickens County, SC | 23,243 | 28,530 | 401 | 492 |
| 2 | Greenville County, SC | 21,631 | 107,810 | 305 | 1,518 |
| 3 | Anderson County, SC | 19,220 | 37,671 | 404 | 791 |
| 4 | Laurens County, SC | 17,988 | 12,000 | 351 | 234 |
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