Following a months long surge driven by the delta variant, new daily cases of COVID-19 are falling once again in the United States. To date, there have been 44,408,600 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.
In the Corpus Christi metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 75,572 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 16,709 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 13,574 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Corpus Christi is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader Corpus Christi metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Nueces County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 66,112 infections in Nueces County, or 18,340 for every 100,000 people.
A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Nueces County than they are across all of the Corpus Christi area, however. There have been a total of 340 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Nueces County, in line with 344 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Corpus Christi metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 15, 2021.
These are all the counties in Texas where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).
| Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nueces County, TX | 18,340 | 66,112 | 340 | 1,226 |
| 2 | Aransas County, TX | 10,419 | 2,580 | 242 | 60 |
| 3 | San Patricio County, TX | 10,262 | 6,880 | 401 | 269 |
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